"There are always three characters… including in "The High Fall of Your Body" which was first produced at the Little City Theatre "Off the Channel". As many as the sparse language of a poem could enfold. In these equilateral triangles Elin Rahnev usually locks in an accessible plot. And - if retold simply - it might even sound banal… But over this quite unpretentious skeleton layers and layers of life have been plastered, and tangled mazes of human fates. Everything about them is equivocal, ambiguous, contradicting. The murderer (Valentin Tanev) is attracted to death, he seeks it as salvation. The investigator (Vassilena Atanassova) stays alive as serving a life sentence. The interrogation seems to be between the author and the literary editor. The two pore over each and every word, they clarify the plot and reveal the meaning. And the actual crime is left as a background and as something of much less significance.
Anelia Yaneva, Capital,
24 Feb.-2 March
2001

ELIN RAHNEV

This is my own personal pessimism. I could not write without that… Rights that I have made up by myself predefine my writing - we are so temporary that it is almost a bore.