Народният театър - норма и отклонение
The National Theatre – Norm and Deviation

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the National Theatre “Ivan Vazov” as an existence of the norm that develops through its deviations. The approach of the article is to start by analyzing the city plans position of the theatre and the symbolism of the adjacent buildings. From the very beginning of its existence, the National Theatre was supposed to introduce both the European traditional norms in drama and to leave a door to its stage ajar for modern aesthetics and even some elements of the avant-garde. Norm and deviation remain equally respected and active forces during the 20s and 30s and thus the very opposition between them is gradually reconciled. After 1944, the theatre falls into a deep aesthetic anomie and, though not articulated, loses its statute of an aesthetic legislator. Nevertheless, during the recent decade it again rejected the space that carries the major part of aesthetic innovation in Bulgarian theatre. Apparently this is the future of the theatre – to present the possibly best performance for the possibly largest audiences in their possibly greatest variety. All that in a time when norm no longer exists and thus deviations cannot be evaluated.

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