"In 'The Sufferings of Young Werter' half of eternal love is being pinched to death to calm down, totally teased and devastated. (...) And as in other works, irony is Abadjieva's servant."
Dimitar Staikov, "24 Chasa",
May '98

 
  "Abadjieva has turned Goethe's novel about failed romance into a collage of rapidly alternating great feelings, a vaudeville of romantic passion." Janina Dragostinova, "Kultura",
Sept. '99
 

The Sufferings of Young Werter
after Goethe, T.C.Elliot, Kafka and Kirkegor
director Lilia Abadjieva
set & costumes Vassil Abadjiev

premiere 16 March 1998

  "Director Lilia Abadjieva doesn't regard the romantic story of love and suicide with intense seriousness - she seems to turn it into irony instead. The young Bulgarian theatre-maker tries to escape reality and seeks refuge in entertainment. But all who decide to make a political statement out of this merely end in no-man's land." "Berliner Morgenpost" '99  

LILIA ABADJIEVA
Interview with Peter Laudenbach,
"Tip" magazine, Sept. '99

"To me this is the terrified fear to find love, fear of commitment of one's own ego in love. Unrequited love takes Werter to the extreme - to death. Unrequited love is a parallel to unrequited life."