Stefan Kaegi Cargo Sofia-Warszawa 31. August, 7pm 01. September, 7pm 04. September, 7pm 05. September, 7pm 06. September, 7pm A Truck-Performance touring in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Slovenia, Serbia & Montenegro, Croatia, Latvia, Austria and Poland.

Long-distance drivers used to supply the East with jeans and porno magazines and the West with Bulgarian tea and Polish vegetables. In the enlarged European Union, they are the nomads of cargo transport: they work on less than 6 square meters in front of their 40-ton freight.

Where goods used to be stacked, in Cargo Sofia-Warszawa the audience sits and looks out from a changed perspective back at their city. Thus the truck serves as an observatory, a theatre rehearsal, a mobile pair of binoculars trained at the city like a microscope.

There will be five truck performances shown in Warsaw. The audience is invited to come to a central venue and will be transferred from there to places typically frequented by truck drivers, such as roadside fast-food restaurants, cargo handling ramps, warehouses or border checkpoints. It is amid this ready-made scenery that the drivers will be presenting their stories. Listening to Balkan sounds and the drivers' voices, the viewers will be looking back at their own city through the eyes of the nomads.

The vehicle is a converted Bulgarian truck carrying stories instead of goods. For a crew of 2 drivers and 2 artists, it serves as a mobile home travelling from Sofia to Ljubljana, from Basel to Berlin and from Riga to Warsaw, always adapting the common performance to the specific conditions and surroundings in each city. Join the cowboys of the road!

Cargo Sofia - X is a production of Goethe Institut Sofia and Hebbel am Ufer Berlin in coproduction with Theater Basel and PACT Zollverein Essen, Le Maillon Strasbourg and THEOREM, European association supported by the Culture 2000 program of the European Union. Supported by Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe - sponsored by Germany, Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and Forum Goethe-Institut.

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