"Purity and conciseness of an environment in which the actors are able to reveal the complexity and completeness of their artsitic natures. A type of theatre which most powerfully expresses something so essential to it - the cross point of energies, of universes, of actor and audience." Ani Topaldjikova, "Literaturen vestnik", Feb. 2000

 

Art
by Yasmina Reza
director Plamen Markov,
set & costumes Chaika Petrusheva,
music Assen Avramov
premiere 9 February 2000

  "For the past ten years theatre audiences have been expecting the meeting of these two personalities of the stage - Atanas Atanassov and Vlado Penev. And finally it has happened - at the Little City Theatre "Off the Channel". But there is a third one in this meeting - Ivan Petrushinov - to be the buffer between the two. But also to be what makes the picture complete. (...) The actors walk the most difficult road - to ultimate sincerity, authentic self-irony, complete self-revealing, to the boundaries of acting - the boundary of giving it up." Rada Balareva, "Demokratsia", Feb. 2000  
  "The absurd is not in the picture. It is in the fact that those who never cease to "lean" on it argue and turn it into a Frame. The dull shades of white demonstrate the vulnerability of thinking of ones own limitations. Which has been captured in a picture - the most outspoken art ever to be created."  
PLAMEN MARKOV
from the programme of the production, Feb. 2000
"This is a play of the type that demands of the director and cast to simply trust and listen to its unique voice - just like the sculptor - all that one has to do is get rid of the excessive. Not in the stone, but in one's own self."
  Patricia Nikolova, "Kultura", March 2000

Listen to the production's music - part I, part II