Performing Arts

Cries from the Underground

🏆 Nominated for the “Askeer” 2026 Awards in the category “One-Man Performance” ✍️ Based on Fyodor Dostoevsky 🎭 Director: Stoyan Radev Performer: Yordan Rysin Nietzsche wrote that in notes, truth is not presented as a philosophical argument but screams in pain, because only in this way can truth manifest itself. That is why we turn the text into a performance—to make it happen, to be experienced, not merely read. “Notes from Underground” the Underground Man touches his own wound, reaching complete self-exposure, acknowledging his total disagreement with the orderly world and its laws, while not sparing his personal guilt and helplessness. There is no salvation—unless sincere confession itself is salvation. In the preface to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche speaks of the “last man.” He seeks comfort, not meaning; avoids suffering and risk; for him there is no God, no truth, no purpose—only cynical comfort. He lives long, but shallowly. It is as if Nietzsche is describing modern man. We propose a meeting between this modern man and the Underground Man, and we believe the result will be, at the very least, deeply stirring. — Stoyan Radev