THEATRE PRACTICE IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21st CENTURY

THEATRE PRACTICE IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21st CENTURY

Conference Proceedings, Varna, 8–9 June 2011

After “Theatre Practice in the Late 1990s”, this is the second publication of conference proceedings that succeeds a theoretical discussion organized by Varna Summer International Theatre Festival, aiming to make sense of the processes in contemporary Bulgarian theatre. The presented papers and discussions reflect the positions coming from various professional and theatrical experiences of the participants in the conference “Theatre Practice in the First Decade of the 21st Century” – theatre researchers, playwrights, PhD students, freelance professionals, cultural administrators and festival organizers.

Compiled and edited by Nikolay Iordanov

Published by Varna Summer International Theatre Festival Foundation, Homo Ludens Foundation

Sofia, 2012

To the texts in Bulgarian.

CONTENT
  • BULGARIAN DRAMA
  • Nikolay Iordanov
    New Bulgarian Playwriting: Stories and Dramatic Nature
  • Bogdana Kosturkova
    Repertoire strategies in Bulgarian theatre. Main trends in new Bulgarian playwriting
  • Veneta Doytcheva
    Women’s presence in Bulgarian drama after 1989
  • Kalina Terziyska
    Corpses and Miracles or Dissection with Elements of Euphoria
  • PERFORMANCE STRATEGIES
  • Kamelia Nikolova
    Dramatic and post-dramatic challenges: changes in the text-performance relation in Bulgarian theatre
  • Miroslava Mariyanova
    New practices in the text-performance relationship. Bulgarian independent artists
  • Anna Topaldzhikova
    Thinking about the body in Bulgarian Theatre Practice after 1989
  • Romeo Popiliev
    The Return of the Prodigal Son
  • Milena Mihailova
    Manifestations of the aesthetics of realism and the language of multimedia in Bulgarian theatre
  • Robert Blash
    On the Intersection of Capitalism and Imagination in Bulgarian Theatre
  • THEATRE AND AUDIENCE
  • Asen Terziev
    New figures in contemporary European theatre and their Bulgarian counterparts
  • Rumyana Nikolova
    Audiences and strategies
  • Krasimira Filipova
    To what extent does the Bulgarian audience need theatre?
  • Zornitsa Kamenova
    Trends in Bulgarian theatre through the eyes of the nominations and the Icarus Awards of the Union of Artists in Bulgaria
  • Discussions
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