Родно и чуждо в българската култура и театър
Native and alien aspects in Bulgarian culture and theatre

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the contrast of Native vs. Alien (or Foreign), an opposition frequently used in a cultural and social-psychological framework. The author also examines the formation of the two terms and the contradictions within each term and between them. This opposition is further examined in the variants One’s own/the Other, Same/Other, Near/ Far, etc. The Native cannot avoid expanding towards the Alien and assimilating things from the Other, due at the very least to an instinct of self-preservation. In this sense, the Alien is always within the Native itself, like a moving force for the growth and change of the Native. The paper is an introduction to the question of Native and Alien aspects in relation to Bulgarian theatre and its history, a problem that will be examined here briefly in its main points. After the Changes that began in 1989, the global trends of growing closeness – and probably natural opposition – between Own and Other, between Native and Alien, found the theatrical stage to be one of the places for reconciliation, because the theatre was a place where own and other are mutually mirrored...

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