THE END AFTER YOU

The End After You by Xavier Durringer translated by Svetlana Pancheva directed by Nadya Pancheva set and costume design by Ilyana Kancheva composer: Yavor Namliev poster by Hristo Hristov

featuring the actors: Marin Apostolov, Nikol Karabinova, Boris Dikov, Lyuboslava Marinova, Viktor Mladenov, Nikola Parashkevov

“The End After You” by Xavier Durringer is a contemporary play aimed at a young audience that explores the mechanisms of violence in the context of a forming identity and the fear of an uncertain future. The text problematizes the way a young person experiences closeness, rejection, and the desire to belong in a world with shaken moral and social bearings. At the center of the action are six characters whose relationships move between friendship, love, and hostility, gradually escalating into physical and emotional aggression. Violence emerges as an internal consequence of the inability to name affect, of the lack of language for pain, fear, and vulnerability. This is a raw and honest text about growing up, about the fear of being abandoned, and about that critical moment when the desire for closeness turns into an impulse toward destruction.