Announcement from the Drama Theater - Plovdiv, published on 30.06.2021 at https://dtp.bg/:
"The show "Oh, you, whoever you are", programmed for July 2, is canceled. On July 2, the ticket office will be open until 21:00. You can return the tickets by July 5, 2021 inclusive. After that date the ticket office of the theater will be closed for the summer.
On July 2, at 9:00 pm, the theater will host the play "Duel", originally announced as the Summer Theater on the same date. "

"OH, YOU, WHOEVER YOU ARE..."
A lyrical collage of poems, letters and memoirs about love by Ivan Vazov
​by Mirela Ivanova

2 July 2021, 19:00 h.
Plovdiv Drama Theatre
Tickets at the box office of the theater and online here

Creatives:
Directed by Boyka Velkova
Set and Costume Design by Nina Pashova
Music by Theodosii Spassov
Choreographed by Mila Iskrenova

Cast: NENCHO KOSTOV, RADINA BORSHOSH, BILYANA PETRINSKA, PARASKEVA DZHUKELOVA, EVA TEPAVICHAROVA

Vazov: Loving and Lovable

Initially it was actress Paraskeva Dzhukelova who came up with the idea to stage a reading of Vazov’s love poems, and then this idea was developed and the work on the lyrical account of love fared pretty well with matchless dedication and absorbing passion. Artistically, Vazov’s intimate poems are his most vulnerable side. Vazov began to write poetry at the age of 19, inspired by his love for Katherina, still not having a developed writing style, examples to follow, standard Bulgarian language for that matter, and his poems were but a powerful sensual tide. Most of them perished, when his native town Sopot was reduced to ashes by the başıbozuks (irregular soldiers of the Ottoman army) in 1877, and some of the extant along with those composed later in Ruse on the Danube were included in his book A Bunch of May Flowers. Much later, in 1919, his personal anthology Scenting Lilac features well-structured and well-mastered intimate poems; still, even the best of them are a far cry from his greatest masterpieces in terms of their power. Intimate poems are Vazov’s most vulnerable side in that we have refused him in a particular way this belonging to the sensual, personal essence of life, and he too was more than a reserved man of few words, very discreet about the matter, uttering occasionally a painful word to Prof. Shishmanov, or in a letter. Of his personal life only speculations circulate, unhealthy interest in his death and almost no understanding of the age, mission, patriarchal upbringing and the value consistency, that predetermined his ultimate though vibrating with infatuations, love affairs and inspiration loneliness. Lonely and shared with everybody, with his nation.

Oh, You, Whoever You Are... is a lyrical collage seeking with a great deal of theatrical imagination and respect to answer the questions: who were the mysterious women whom he loved and who inspired him? Who were the women behind his stately presence? What was the role of his mother Suba Vazova, who kept to her dying day watching like a hawk not only her firstborn Ivan, but also all her nine children? For it is well known how loving and loveable the poet was from his first love Katherina to Eugenia Mars at the twilight of his life, to whom he unspokenly dedicated his anthology Scenting Lilac in 1919. His unrequitable love for the Turkish convert to Christianity Peša in Berkovitsa, whom Vazov gave the poetic name Zehra, like in the eponymous poem dedicated to her, and the seismic life-changing two-year bliss with Pelagia are among the significant events in the poet’s lyrical account, spiritualised by many of his poems, excerpts from letters and memories...
Mirela Ivanova

In-house dramatist: Mirela Ivanova
Assistant director: Boriana Miteva
Poster and leaflet designer: Yanina Petrova

Premieres on 7, 8, 9 July 2020.

Suitable for over 12 years only.

More information at the Plovdiv Drama Theatre official web site https://dtp.bg/en/event/, the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dtplovdiv/, and web page for tickets online https://dtp.bg/en/tickets-online/