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I saw theatre that is close to the human being

Sanath Mehta is a theatre artist, intercultural performer, movement artist and theatre maker from India. He recently graduated from the Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore, where he studied and practiced in various performing traditions – from South Asian performance forms and Japanese Noh theatre to Indonesian Wayang Wong. During his first visit to Bulgaria, he was a guest of the Varna Summer International Theatre Festival, where he attended part of the programme between 6 and 10 June. Zhaklin Dobreva talks with him about his experiences at the festival.
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What Struck Me Most Was the Strength of Bulgaria’s Theatre Culture

Gwynn MacDonald is a New York-based freelance theatre director, script developer, and co-editor of the online journal Women in Theatre. During the Varna Summer International Theatre Festival, she spoke with Anita Angelova about her work, her connection to Bulgaria, and the performances she saw at this year’s festival. Continue reading What Struck Me Most Was the Strength of Bulgaria’s Theatre Culture

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Ole Frahm on “Rapture and Rage”: Authoritarianism Offers a Very Simple Social Order – of Leaders and Followers

Ole Frahm is a member of LIGNA, the collective he formed together with Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen. LIGNA is among the notable theatre groups in European performance and media art, known for its work with group audio situations and its exploration of social and political processes. In 2017, the group received the George Tabori Prize for independent performing arts in Germany. Anita Angelova interviewed Ole Frahm about ‘Rapture and Rage. Studies on Authoritarian Characters’, presented as part of the festival’s Showcase Programme. Continue reading Ole Frahm on “Rapture and Rage”: Authoritarianism Offers a Very Simple Social Order – of Leaders and Followers

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Ivan Dodovski: The Diversity of Varna Summer Theatre Festival

Zhaklin Dobreva talks to Ivan Dodovski from North Macedonia – Professor of Critical Theory and Comparative Literature at University American College Skopje and President of Eurodram – about his impressions of the festival programme and the performances ‘Triptych’, ‘Cries from the Underground’, ‘The Tempest’ and ‘The Fellowman’s Face’, as well as the importance of cultural exchange between different languages, stages and cultures. Continue reading Ivan Dodovski: The Diversity of Varna Summer Theatre Festival

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Margarita Mladenova on ‘The Fellowman’s Face’: It is difficult to love the ugly face of one’s fellowman

“Why do lofty ideas fail when put into human action? For me, this is the great subject of art today,” says director Margarita Mladenova in an interview with Zhaklin Dobreva about ‘The Fellowman’s Face’, based on ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theatre Laboratory “Sfumato”, part of the Showcase programme. Continue reading Margarita Mladenova on ‘The Fellowman’s Face’: It is difficult to love the ugly face of one’s fellowman

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