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We know Desislava Shpatova as one of the most attractive, sensible and innovative young Bulgarian theatre directors. We liked very much 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch and Flying by Olga Muhina. That theatre season Desislava surprised us with her next theatrical attempt – her own dramatization by Bergman Scenes from a Family Life or the Art of Sweeping the Dirt under the Carpet, played in the Drama theatre of Pazardzik.

Anastasia Ingilizova is from those actresses who make us go to the theatre hall for every spectacle. Because in only one glance she can show more of her character in the play than with 5 monologues. The other reason is that it is exciting to watch her even when she plays a secondary character and also because she is interesting both in comic and dramatic roles. We have wanted to meet her for a long time now and here is the perfect occasion – Instincts, the first premiere in Theatre 199 for the season, where Anastasia plays not only one but whole three roles.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the hit of the seasons - Charley's aunt! The premiere of the new spectacle of State opera Stara Zagora is on 5th November. The leading role in the new cultural fact is entrusted to the usual suspect, the irreplaceable national darling - Ruslan Muynov!

Do you like to go to the opera? Do you think that this is really old-fashioned? At least operetta, musical or ballet… ? I think myself, that the next orders will excite your curiosity just to see what the new season of State Opera Stara Zagora will offer. The principal Vesselin Stoykov is creative young professionalist, who wishes to attract more of the young audience in the halls of the opera.

Iavor Gardev already rules the of theater world so he decided to try and conquer the cinema. His first step – Zift – is so splendid we are looking at him with awe. After months of talk about the success of the movie at a number of festivals this week Zift finally hits the screens here. In the meantime, Iavor is working on his next two cinema projects and his new play had its premiere in Varna.

Rumen Barosov is well spoken and seemingly calm but he can't hide his enthusiasm – the Sofia: Poetics festival, organized by himself and colleague Yasen Atanasov is close at hand. And it is a thing to be excited about indeed – eight years after the first Bulgarian festival combining urban poetry and modern music comes its second incarnation. And it shapes up to be quite good – 32 poets, 15 bands and DJs, 3 dance miniatures and one whole evening of art improvisation, on 21 September, under the stars and right next to the water lillies lake.

Andrzej Saramonowicz is known around the world as the author of the theater play Testosteron but he is actually the mainman behind some of the most popular Polish movies to come out lately – all of them humorous urban tales of war of the sexes, a struggle with ni actual winner. The cinema version of Testosteron and his latest hit Lejdis are already on their way to Varna for the Love is Folly festival. And although Andrzej won't come to present the movies himself, he was kind enough to explain all about machos, theatre and football in an exclusive interview for Programata.

In the center of August begins The National Tour On The Gagmen under the logo It's easy to laugh. Hristo Gurbov is an one from the superb six with Lubomir Neykov, Krustyo Lazarov, Ruslan Muinov, Nencho Iliev and Petyo Petkov. Now he gives us answers on some questions, that are curious for supporters of the tv-show.

Dr. House is going to a rally. Take it easy, the freak from the famous tv series had not thrown away his walking stick and his caustic remarks on the speedway. It's only Daniel Tsochev who doubles him in Bulgarian language and who has found a more extreme way of expressing his actor's talent. He is the narrator in the new 3D movie NASCAR.

After years of absence from Bulgarian stage Alexandar Morfov comes back to show two performances produced in Vera Komisarjevska Theatre in Saint Petersburg.

This text is about theatre, poetry and the C section on Bulgarian Army stadium. The common element among these three topics is Elin Rahnev – a journalist, a passionate fan of the football team CSKA, capable of representing life in Bulgaria as a minibus or glorifying the football predilections of the Pope. We met Elin in a café, a hundred meters away from the Satirical Theatre and discussed his new book of poetry Canela (cinnamon) and some other things.

Boian Ivanov is one of the young theatre directors who wins popularity by making provocative spectacles as Q4. He seldom comes to Sofia but now he has just surprised us with two spectacles in the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts and the New Bulgarian University preformed by graduating students. He is also intending of making a third one – Servant of Two Masters in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre. The last one did not happen but anyhow we met Boian to talk about theatre as a mass kind of art and about the mischievous childhood.

After the Dunav Most series everyone hurried to label Ioana Bukovska and point at her because of the scenes in which she is naked. But this doesn't prevent her from fighting and going on and recently she is very active in theatre as well as in cinema. That is why we decided to meet Ioana and have a sincere talk about the roles, the scandalous image and... these three things.