"After "Dog House" and "The Living Corpse", after "Lady with the Cameo" in Pleven, Bina Haralampieva quite naturally arrived at the Bulgarian "romantic" or (melo-)drama. (…) The audience does not have to cry of course. What it has to do instead is to think in retrospect of time, of the evolution of habits, ideas, language and taste for the "romantic" since 1911." Aglika Stefanova, "Literaturen vestnik", May '99  

The Kazalar Queen after Ivan Vazov
dramatisation by Yuri Dachev
director Bina Haralampieva,
set & costumes Maria Dimanova,
music Assen Avramov
premiere 21 April 1999

  "The fact that Vazov's drama was last performed 28 years ago speaks for itself. The production at Off the Channel though overcomes initial skepticism. The faded melodrama has been reborn to a vibrant comedy, put together as in a film collage by the dramatisation of Yuri Dachev, where actors present the characters with a lively tease." Anelia Yaneva, "Sega", May '99