Without Skin
by Teodora Dimova
director Bina Haralampieva
set & costumes
Anelia Raikova
music Assen Avramov
CAST
Ilka Zafirova
Aneta Sotirova
Ivan Petrushinov
Petar Kalchev
Svetlana Bonin
Antonii Argirov
 


"Director Bina Haralampieva has brought together some of the best actors from Little City Theatre. The music is especially interesting - Assen Avramov. The set is devised to allow the actors the freedom of making the most of the space. This piece works."
Patricia Nikolova,
"Sega", 22 May '03

 

"Three women of different generations struggle through life at the Little City Theatre. They are the main characters of Teodora Dimova's new play "Without Skin". The company's manager is director of this openly feministic work in which the men try to live up to their partners but in vain. And so they find retreat in escaping all over the world. Zara (an excellent Aneta Sotirova) is a musician who many years ago chose the violin over the family. Her husband leaves her to find work abroad just to spite her, and her children are alienated. The only person who courageously tells her the truth is her mother (Ilka Zafirova). The daughter (Svetlana Bonin) falls in love with Jess (Martin Karov) whom she finds having paid sex with her mother. The sone Naum (Petar Kalchev) wins an award for poetry in Bologna and he too decides to travel. Everything is taking place here and now, the characters claim that our life sucks, that it is grey and dismal. One of the messages of "Without Skin" though is that we ought to stay if we want the state to be. "I try to analyze what happened to us over the past 13 years. Everyone has paid the transition in blood, but there seems to be no end of it. and meanwhile we are growing older with the feeling of failure," Teodora Dimova says.
Albena Atanassova,
"Standart", 14 April '03

 
"Even in a few minutes one can realize that "Without Skin" is about the tragic and comic everyday situations… "I call this play the story of a life that never was", director Bina
Haralampieva concludes. Aneta Sotirova adds that it is exactly why she loves so much her character Zara. The actress is happy that she will mark the 30th anniversary of her career on stage with this particular role."
"Novinar", 27 April '03