The German theatre journalist Dieter Topp shares with Anita Angelova his opinion about ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time’ and ‘The Hague’, part of the Showcase programme. Continue reading Dieter Topp: I proposed ‘The Hague’ for the Award of KulturForum Europa for Cultural Achievement
Jan Jiřík is a theatre critic and faculty member of the Theatre Faculty at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he teaches at the Department of Theatre Theory. Jiřík shares with Desislava Vasileva some his opinion on the productions ‘The Hague’ and ‘Living the Dream with Grandma”. Continue reading Jan Jiřík: I am very happy that stories like in ‘Living the Dream with Grandma’ are shared with the audience
Director Nadya Pancheva shares in an interview with Anita Angelova her motivations for working on documentary plays and tell about the research process for Doug Wright’s play ‘I Am My Own Wife,’ starring Dimitar Angelov. Continue reading Nadya Pancheva on ‘I Am My Own Wife’: We Need the Example of Strong Real Personalities
The ‘Sfumato’ Theater Laboratory participates in the festival selection with the production ‘Happy Days’ by Samuel Beckett. Desislava Vasileva talks with director Margarita Mladenova. Continue reading Margarita Mladenova about ‘Happy Days’ – a performance on the vital impulse to live
The director of the show talks with Jacqueline Dobreva about the process of its creation. Continue reading Boyan Ivanov: The performance “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” became a cause
László Göndör is one of the young talented personalities on the theatre stages in Hungary. His performances are distinguished by their playful and ironic elements. In 2020, Göndör won the Staféta Award, which supports the most promising young Hungarian theatre creators. In the festival selection, he is participating with his one-man show ‘Living the Dream with Grandma’ which brought him international fame. Göndör shares more about the performance with Desislava Vasileva. Continue reading Getting through anxiety and fear with László Göndör and ‘Living the Dream with Grandma’
The Showcase programme of the Varna Summer International Theatre Festival 2024 opens on 3rd June with “The Hague” by Sasha Denisova directed by Galin Stoev at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre. Jacqueline Dobreva talks with the director about his work on the production. Continue reading Galin Stoev: “The Hague” is a playground and an exploration of our intimate understanding of good and evil
The Varna Summer International Theatre Festival for a thirty-second time! Just before its upbeat the festival director Nikolay Iordanov and main coordinator Asen Terziev talk about this year’s edition with Jacqueline Dobreva. Continue reading The festival is a kaleidoscope of the theatre scene
Between 4 – 8 June Varna Summer Theatre Festival hosted for the second time an international workshop for young theatre critics organized by the International Association of Theatre Critics and the Homo Ludens Foundation. We asked some of the participants to tell us more about their experiences in the workshop. Continue reading On the workshop for young theatre critics
Stefana Pop-Curseu is the artistic director of the National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She visited the festival and tells Jacqueline Dobreva about her impressions of the performances. Continue reading Stefana Pop-Curseu: We must believe in beauty
