Archive | 2012

MAIN PROGRAMME: BULGARIAN SELECTION
Selector: Veneta Doycheva, theatre researcher
ZOOM
Theatre is a powerful magnifying glass that has the power to focus attention on the big issues experienced by the society. In 2012, International Theatre Festival Varna Summer presents its 20th edition and will continue to pursue its ambition to be a meeting place for ideas. Our satisfaction with the long way we have come over the years binds us to think for the prospects of the future. In our program of Bulgarian performances we stress on the theatre that defends causes and asks questions. Theatre’s causes are in the field of aesthetic innovation and untrodden paths, theatre’s causes are in its commitment to the anxieties of present-day world, theatre’s causes are in the energy of youth, theatre’s causes are in the platform of open conversation with the audience, theatre’s causes are in the space of focusing on the eternal questions. We will look for engaged theatre that has the nerve, passion, capacity to provoke. We will present to the audience texts, actors, directors, artists and musicians in whose pulse beats the theatre’s potential to lead engaged discussions. We believe play is serious, beautiful and exciting when it does not stop asking.

NATIONAL THEATRE “IVAN VAZOV”
KNIGHT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
01 June/2012
venue
Drama Theatre - Main Stage

RAIMUND HOGHE – GERMANY
L’APRÈS-MIDI – a solo for Emmanuel Eggermont
02 June/2012
venue
Drama Theatre - Second Stage

STATE CULTURAL INSTITUTE WITH THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS | OBSERVATORY OF CULTURAL ECONOMICS
Round table INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL POLICY: FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT
02 June/2012
venue
Graffit Gallery

THEATRE OF SATIRE – SOFIA, ARTISHOCK PRODUCING HOUSE LTD.
A SMALL RADIO – solo performance by Maya Novoselska
03 June/2012
venue
Drama Theatre - Main Stage

NT LIVE - ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE – LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
FRANKENSTEIN
03 June/2012
venue
Festival and Congress Centre – Varna

JONATHAN BURROWS AND MATTEO FARGION – UNITED KINGDOM/ BELGIUM
CHEAP LECTURE AND THE COW PIECE
03 June/2012
venue
City Art Gallery “Boris Georgiev”

VARNA SUMMER ITF | HOMO LUDENS JOURNAL
Round table A TRIBUTE TO A GENERATION OF ACTORS
03 June/2012
venue
Drama Theatre - Main Stage

ORGANIZATION FOR ALTERNATIVE ART AND CULTURE 36 MONKEYS
P.O. BOX UNABOMBER
06 June/2012
venue
Graffit Gallery

VIOLETA VITANOVA / VENELIN SHURELOV
ZOOM IN – a performance-installation
06 June/2012
venue
State Puppet Theatre – Varna

Show of Force LLC | HBO
MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
06 June/2012
venue
Festival and Congress Centre – Varna

THEATRE LABORATORY “SFUMATO” - TO DAMASCUS PROGRAMME
THE DANCE OF DEATH
07 June/2012
venue
Drama Theatre - Second Stage

VARNA SUMMER ITF
International conference WHAT CONTEMPORARY THEATRE RISES AGAINST?
08 June/2012
venue
Festival and Congress Centre – Varna

NATIONAL THEATRE “M. SORESKU” – CRAIOVA, ROMANIA
A TEMPEST
09 June/2012
venue
Drama Theatre - Main Stage

MARTIN PENEV / STANISLAV GENADIEV
CADAVER – interactive dance performance
10 June/2012
venue
City Art Gallery “Boris Georgiev”

UNIVERSITY THEATRE AND THEATRE DEPARTMENT – NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
CUSTOMS
10 June/2012
venue
City Art Gallery “Boris Georgiev”

KARBIDO – WROCLAW, POLAND
THE TABLE – a music performance
11 June/2012
venue
City Art Gallery “Boris Georgiev”
