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Where:Театър Артвент, 7:30 PM, Sofia
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The whiskey flows, truths surface, and the rain doesn't stop.
What do you get when you bring together four women, a pressure washer, and a stolen idea? Answer: total chaos and egos soaked to the bone!
„Code Yellow“ is a comedy that poses the question: Can the women's revolution happen without someone having to clean up afterward?
Niki, a talented young architect, on the verge of launching her first solo project, is preparing for an important dinner with her boss. But instead of him, her neighbor Emma appears at her door - armed with feminist slogans and the unsettling ability to turn every conversation into a lecture on the patriarchy. While Niki tries to get her to leave, her boss cancels the meeting on the pretext that he has a 'stomach bug'.
After three glasses of whiskey and numerous conspiracy theories, Niki and Emma sneak into the architecture firm to look for "evidence." But they aren't the only ones with that idea. There they find Adriana – the boss's elegant wife, who is looking for a slightly different kind of compromising material on her husband!
As the rain falls harder and floods the basements, the tension in the office rises, and the evening turns into a comic confrontation when the cleaning lady Blagovesta joins the group.
The four women turn out to be far more entangled with the boss than they had imagined.
And so, four women completely different from one another, armed with a bottle of whiskey and a pressure washer, plunge into a night full of comic situations, in which, driven by their feminist rebellion, they concoct a hilariously chaotic plan for revenge.
Their plan: to destroy the patriarchy, expose the corruption, save the project, and do all of it without a single one of them messing up her hair!
„Code Yellow“ is a funny and awkward story about how, even with the best intentions, the attempt to fight the system often ends in a paradoxical situation: four women who are cleaning! (Because, as Blagovesta wisely notes, "This revolution makes me want to throw up a little.”)
About the production
Code Yellow is a brand-new Bulgarian comedy by playwright Teodora Markova, staged by director Yana Titova with scenography and costumes by Ognyana Serafimova. It premiered at Artvent Theatre in Sofia on October 2, 2025, before visiting Burgas on October 11 and Plovdiv on October 18 the same month. The home venue is a fitting touch: Artvent is housed in the Aula Maxima of the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, which cheekily mirrors the play’s after-hours office battleground.
The ensemble is a draw in its own right. Ekaterina Lazarevska plays Niki, the rising architect whose big break begins to wobble; Vesela Babinova is Emma, the neighbor who storms into Niki’s evening with uncompromising convictions; Anelia Lutsinova appears as Adriana, the boss’s impeccably poised wife; and Anya Pencheva completes the quartet as Blagovesta, a cleaner with radar for hypocrisy and a taste for blunt truths. The production is a collaboration between (BAZA) and Artvent.
Expect high-velocity dialogue, surprise reversals and inventive physical comedy. The staging plays with the look and sound of a storm-besieged workplace: glass partitions turn into confessionals, file boxes become barricades, and a very practical appliance evolves into a not-so-practical weapon of disruption. Beneath the laughter runs a topical spine—credit-stealing in creative industries, the messy arithmetic of allyship, and the thin line between principled stand and performative outrage.
What audiences have been responding to since opening night is the balance: sharp satire without cynicism, and slapstick that never lets the characters slip into caricature. The four performers share the stage like a well-tuned band—each with a distinct rhythm, colliding and harmonizing over one rain-drenched night as secrets spill and loyalties tilt.
- You’ll enjoy Code Yellow if you like character-driven capers where personal ethics collide with office politics.
- Fans of contemporary Bulgarian comedies with quick turns and bold female leads should put this near the top of their list.
- Prefer witty relationship chess with moral stakes? You might also like Savarsheni natrapnici or the spirited marital sequel Otchayani sapruzi 2: Brakuvani. For a Friday-night mood piece, see also Petak vecher.
Come ready for rapid-fire one-liners, scheming with receipts, and the kind of comic timing that only a seasoned quartet can deliver. If you’ve ever wondered who gets to tidy up after a revolution—ideological or otherwise—this show has a cheeky, cathartic answer.
Comedy
90 min.
Children