Once You Cross The Ocean

[illustration & graphic design for theatrical poster] [2023]

Once You Cross the Ocean is a groundbreaking documentary solo performance created by Bulgarian theater-maker Martina Novakova. It investigates how we recreate our culture and ourselves in a foreign sociocultural context and what image we would like for Bulgaria to have abroad. Through the use of verbatim theater techniques, the exact recreation of words and gestures, Novakova brings to life the stories of six well-known Bulgarian artists living in New York creating a universal narrative that anyone who has left their homeland can relate to.

The illustration and poster of the performance depict the journey from the two worlds on the two sides of the ocean.

// 2023
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