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What is Yulian Petrov watching
24 September 2020
text Danni Nikolova
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A heart at the right place with Elena Dimitrova
6 February 2020
The actress just got an Ikar nomination for her role at Kak e - a Beckett inspired performance at Sfumato Theatre. We sit with her to talk about where her heart is, what places are her favourite in the city, and what kind of theatre opens up emotional spaces inside her. -
The things of life: Tsveta Doycheva
16 January 2020
She's someone who used to take 30 minutes to choose her dinner from the menu, but today she's entirely in the other direction. After graduating Interior design, she decided to at least try for her childhood dream of becoming an actress - and got accepted in the academy. After that, she gradually became more and more interested in the physicallity of movement, so she again decided to at least try becoming a dancer. We're meeting her for an interview right before her debut as a choreographer - in Hang in There. -
The things of life: Vaiva Grainytė
21 November 2019
text Sevda Semer
She's a writer, but this word doesn't contain everything. Vaiva jumps between genres, for example with her book of diaries-essays; she writes poetry and is a playwright with a curiosity for the entire process. -
The things from the scene: Marieta Golomehova
13 November 2019
In her over 15-year tandem with director Veselka Kuncheva, she gives life to puppets, decor and images in award-winning performances. If you've watched them, you know how freely this scenographer experiments with the images, materials and messages in her work. That's enough reason to look for her for a conversation, but we're also curious about her new work - the production of The Last Man, based on George Orwell's 1984 in Azaryan Theatre on November 20. In an interview, we talk with Marieta about the benefits of reversal, the resistance to lessons, and the need to express what you have accumulated. -
Behind the curtains with Nadya Keranova
17 October 2019
text Violeta Ivanova photos Sevda Semer
"During a play my anxiety doesn't show, thank God - otherwise what am I doing on stage at all?!", she tells us when we repeat the common opinion - that she looks super confident and just blossoms under the theater spotlight. To believe us, you only need to watch for example The Same Day or Actors vs Poets performed in one of the small halls of Sfumato, to see how easily Nadya cuts the already short distance between herself and the audience and how she boldly improvises. -
The center of the dance: Kaori Ito
1 August 2019
Her most important goal is to make the invisible visible through dance. Kaori Ito, who was born in Japan but lives in Paris, shows feelings on stage, tells personal stories and always talks straight. -
Nice to meet you, Iva Todorova!
18 July 2019
When she sits down to write Nice to meet you, Iva!, she probably doesn't realize that she's already going towards two Ikar prizes (for leading female role and playwright) and a Golden Kukerikon (for a solo theatrical performance). -
The things of life: Martina Apostolova
11 April 2019
In another scenario we would have talked to Martina after her workout, but today we meet her between two rehearsals. After 15 years of seriously playing football, she realizes she feels best not on the field, but on the stage. So she finds herself in the class of Tsvetana Maneva. -
The Playlist of Lily Geleva
28 June 2018
text Violeta Ivanova photo Ivan Gakov
"It turned out that everything I did in the complex teen age was leading to one thing - theater." Why then are we asking her about music? Here's why. -
On the scene: Vesselin Petrov
7 June 2018
Text Natalia Ivanova Photo Petar Nedyalkov
Not long ago he found out that he won the prestigious Askeer prise for a rising star in the Karlo Gocci's fairytale King deer in the Azaryan theatre in Sofia. He talks about the roles that made him fall in love with acting, the things he has been trough his acting career and different projects he's most proud of. -
The things of life: Alexandrina Pendatchanska
29 March 2018
When she first appeared on stage to sing Violetta's aria from Verdi's Traviata, she did not even know how to bow. Only a year later she was already Lucia di Lammermoor in Bilbao, and for the next 30 years her voice was heard in the largest operas from Vienna, Berlin, Turin and Monte Carlo to Moscow, New York, Washington, Tel Aviv and Paris (where she lives with her daughters most of the time). -
Moving Is My Religion
15 March 2018
text Emanuela Ivanova photo Charlie Schuck
Humans are designed for movement, dancing is in our nature, but if you have any doubts that your anatomy is capable of this, you can easily check - just answer with "yes" to "can I do this?" and allow yourselves to connect with your inner dancers. -
Things from stage: Alexandra Petrova
25 January 2018
text and photo Natalia Ivanova
When he sits in the Satirical Theater to see how his play is set, the Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga says that this Hamelin is one of the best he has ever seen. For the director Alexandra Petrova, this is a great compliment, but not the only one - with this play she wins Icarus prize for a debut in 2017. We didn't know much more before meeting her personally but now we see that she had put a lot of effort into her work, because Alexandra has also gained experience from theater schools in Madrid and Amsterdam, and even managed to study psychology. -
Things from life: Mila Lyutskanova
24 August 2017
text and photos Natalia Ivanova
"I'm a nomad," says Mila, adding that she speaks literally but also figuratively. Well, it seems that stagnation is something really uncommon in her life. Since taking Icarus for her debut in Palaveev's Sisters in 2016, the profession of an actress has often heightened it in extremes - from the role of a "sweet bear provocateur" in the Avenue Q to American movie star in Vlado Penev's Class which has a premiere on Apolonia festival. -
Things from stage: Stayko Murdzhev
1 June 2017
text Natalia Ivanova photos Anelia Todorova
We're meeting just after he had taken Askeer for Peter Shaffer's Equus in the Youth Theater. This is not his first directing award - Stayko has a Icarus prize for his debut Puheniyat and a diploma from the Ministry of Culture for his artistic achievements but also dozens of exchanged messages and talks with strangers who sometimes have not understood something, and sometimes just want to say "thank you". -
The things from the stage: Jivko Jelyazkov
20 April 2017
text Emanuela Ivanova photo Aneliya Todorova
The dance is a conversation and every word changes your life - that is how choreographer and co-founder of Derida Dance Center describes the philosophy of his "philology". -
Things from stage: Neda Sokolovska
30 March 2017
text Natalia Ivanova photo Anelia Todorova
The genre verbatim theater (or "literal" in Latin) was created in 1992 when Anna Diviar Smith recorded stories of the riots in Brooklyn and then told them in first person on stage. In 2012 Neda founded her studio Vox Populi to do the same. There are already 10 plays behind her, all of them in the repertoire of The Red house. Today we meet just after the premiere of the latest - Generation ь, which looks at the grown teens of the democracy transition, who welcomed freedom with all its vices. Before we hear her personal memories aloud, Neda leads us on the way to them - from the (almost) abandoned career as an actress to the stories that connect us all. -
Performance list: Iva Sveshtarova and Villy Prager
9 February 2017
text Natalia Ivanova photos Anelia Todorova
They feel on the right way in the experimental school 4xC, conducted by Nikolay Georgiev, where they received an important lesson: the stage is a space for freedom of the thought and the body. With this on their minds, Iva and Villy go to Germany, study in various programs for contemporary dance and performance, play on several stages around the world and then gather minds in Brain Store Project - the same one that stands behind the organisation of Antistatic festival in Bulgaria. -
Things from stage: Ani Vasseva
14 December 2016
text Natalia Ivanova photo Anelia Todorova
Since her first performance till the last one, called Lovecraft (after the name of the famous writer), she is turning the rules in the theater upside down - to find new approach to the actor's playing, the role of light and sound, the human body and the monsters that inhabit it.
