Интерпретации на прехода след 1989 година в драмата и представлението в България
Interpretations of the Post-1989 Transition in Drama and Performance in Bulgaria

Author(s): Kamelia Nikolova
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: interpretations of the Transition; Bulgarian theatre of the Transition; Bulgarian drama of the Transition; new Bulgarian drama; independent stage; devised drama
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the ways drama, performance and theatre as a whole reflect the political transition in Bulgaria – the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the removal from power of Todor Zhivkov at the end of 1989 and Bulgaria’s admission to the European Union in 2007. The focus of the text is on how playwriting and theatre practice experienced and interpreted this key socio-cultural turn both while it was taking place and in the years after. For this purpose, a comparative presentation of theatre and drama in the two periods of Bulgaria’s recent history (1989-2007 and from 2007 until today) has been carried out. Subject to the analysis are, on the one hand, the main interpretations of the Transition in the changing institutional and aesthetic profile of the theatre and in the works of the stage directors Ivan Stanev, Vaskressia Viharova, Tedi Moskov, Galin Stoev and Javor Gardev, and on the other hand, in the plays of authors established before 1989 but continuing to write after that, such as Stanislav Stratiev, Konstantin Iliev, Stephan Tsanev, Margarit Minkov, Tsvetan Marangozov, as well as in the dramatic texts of the subsequent and the latest generation of playwrights who emerged after the change – Teodora Dimova, Georgi Tenev, Kamen Donev, Yuri Dachev, Elin Rahnev, Plamen Doynov, Yana Borissova, Georgi Gospodinov, Elena Alexieva, Yasen Vassilev, Miroslav Hristov, Ivan Dimitrov, Stephan Ivanov.

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