"(...) Bina Haralampieva has shown us her existentially neurotic interpretation of Tolstoy's popular play. (...) The performance reflects a contrast of voices, of movements, of thoughts. As if the entire world has split in two and does not know where to head to, and in the middle a rope bridge remains as the only way. This is a performance which reminds of the intransience and ambiguity of the great."
Ani Milenkova, "Theatre" magazine, Feb. '98

 

The Living Corpse by Lev Tolstoy
director Bina Haralampieva,
set & costumes Maria Dimanova,
music Assen Avramov
premiere 12 December 1997
  "... in 'The Living Corpse' Bina Haralampieva's questions no longer have national psychology dimensions but head towards the irrational fields of the individual. The performance dwells on the desperate, doomed self-negation of the individual, but also on some of the reasons (including social, but not just those) for the impossibility of a different choice." Nikola Vandov, "Kultura", March '98  
ATANAS ATANASSOV
 Interview with Rada Balareva, Kultura
"I have the feeling that Fedya Protasov's problem is my problem too. Everybody thinks Fedya is alive, so they could love him, alive enough so that he could love them back, alive simply because he sings well and drinks well. He does that and is ashamed of himself Because in his own eyes he is dead."