The sequence of events from the global celebration of languages in Europe continued with a performance on Monday.

Artists of the Possible Theatre troupe from Grenoble in France, presented a spectacle in most European languages. The seven actors recited poems by Shelley, Dante, Mayiakovski, Neruda, Bodler, Francois Villon in English, German, Romanian, Finnish, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Czech, Arabic, Portuguese and Bulgarian. The Bulgarian Army Theatre hosted the performance, which will be performed again in Pleven on October 9.

The show consists of polyglot poetry and is dedicated exclusively to the widespread celebrations of the European Year of Languages. The performers from the troupe were of various nationalities and the show was entitled Theatrical Babylon. The idea behind the event was to gather different individual authors from various different periods and to make a complete whole. The different languages were presented as if representing the different chapters of a book read by a silent presenter (who stood at the side of the stage). The messages themselves mattered, not the language they were said in.

In the second part of the show, Anton Chekhov's one-act play Wedding Proposal was performed in both Russian and French. T. S. Eliot's The Lovesong of Alfred Prufrock was the highlight of the show.

"Let us go then, you and I/When the evening is spread out against the sky/Like a patient etherized upon a table/Let us go through certain half-deserted streets.../Oh, do not ask, `What is it?'" the actress in the polyglot show quoted with zealousness and passion.

The event was supported by the Russian Cultural Centre, the Goethe Institute, the British Council and the French Institute in Sofia. Those sponsors are also helping to launch the play Peace, to be presented on October 13. The National Theatre Ivan Vazov is hosting the event with music by Goran Bregovich and directed by Jean Francois Duror (French director). Ballet dancers, singers, actors and musicians from the Balkans and Western Europe are participating in the dance show Peace.

The way Duror presented Peace is his way of interpreting his perception of peace. The mysterious and fascinating trip along the roads of existence presents a beautiful and Utopian search for the meanings and terminology of peace. Francois presents it as an idea, hope and a dream. Whatever he wanted to say the director expressed in his performance, which was like a trip or a poll and took different shapes. The challenges that are ahead of the director and that he set for himself are to clarify the craziness of war (as he calls it). The plot reveals what life under ruins is like.

Living amidst dream and reality in the context of a mime spectacle together with rap rhythms and Bregovich's music creates a vivid dance show. Critics comment that Duror includes all that he loves in his piece-circus - rumba, Zulu dancing and the thirst for life in the suburbs. Some resemblances with Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Bertold Breht's characters are featured in Peace (music, speech and lexis).

Instead of being fatalistic, the characters of the performance are fighting and are constantly looking for truth.

Bregovich considers the performance youth-oriented with a large amount of hip hop and commercial styles of musical performances.

Jean de La Fontaine's fables will be introduced by the French Institute, which is patronizing the performance Reading is a Holiday. Actors will read poems and stories by the famous French writer. The celebration is also dedicated to the Holiday of Reading, which has already been in existence for 13 years in France. Classical and contemporary texts are offered every year on this day via various performances and recitals.