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THE TEMPEST
- Director: Robert Wilson
- Theatre:Ivan Vazov National Theatre
- Hosting Theatre :National Theater named after Shota Rustaveli
- Date:
- 17 September - 20:00 hr,
William Shakespeare
Visual Theatre
The play is in Bulgarian
It has Georgian and English subtitles
DIRECTION, SCENOGRAPHY AND ARTISTIC LIGHTING: Robert Wilson
CO – DIRECTOR: Ann - Christin Rommen
LIGHT DESIGNER: Marcello Lumaca, Christian-Simon Petru
CO - SET DESIGNER: Marie de Testa
COSTUME DESIGNER: Yashi
SOUND DESIGNER: Dario Felli
DRAMATURG: Jutta Ferbers
Photographer Gergana Damianova
Cast:
PROSPERO: Veselin Mezekliev
MIRANDA: Radina Borshosh
ARIEL: Zhaklin Daskalova
CALIBAN: Yavor Valkanov
ALONSO: Stoyan Pepelanov
FERDINAND: Plamen Dimov
GONZALO: Valentin Ganev
SEBASTIAN: Zafir Radjab
ANTONIO: Konstantin Elenkov
TRINKULO: Stefan Kushev
STEPHANO: Vasil Draganov
BOATSWAIN / SPIRIT / DOG: Nencho Kostov
SPIRIT / IRIS: Gergana Zmiicharova
SPIRIT / CERES: Vyara Tabakova
SPIRIT / JUNO: Vladislava Nikolova
About Performance :
Robert Wilson’s trademark is his work with light, which he
uses to draw his theatrical canvases. His stage production “The
Tempest”, created with the troupe of the National Theatre,
presents an ultimate proof of that. In his interpretation
Shakespeare’s work is transformed into a beautiful fairytale, told
through elaborated sound design, impressive visuals, stylized
movement and sense of humor.
Duration: 90 Minutes
September 17
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Septemberi 18
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ROBERT WILSON
Biography
short version
“[Robert Wilson is] a towering figure in the world of experimental theater and an explorer
in the uses of time and space on stage.” —The New York Times
Born in Waco, Texas, Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists.
His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic
media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images
are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have
earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide.
After being educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute,
Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman
School of Byrds” in the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works,
including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975).
With Philip Glass he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976).
Wilson’s artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as
Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou
Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi. He has also left his imprint on masterworks
such as Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Debussy’s
Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s Odyssey, Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables,
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s La Traviata and several of Shakespeare’s
works.
Wilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around
the world in hundreds of solo and group showings, and his works are held in private
collections and museums throughout the world.
Wilson has been honored with numerous awards for excellence, including a
Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Premio Ubu awards, the Golden Lion of the Venice
Biennale, and an Olivier Award. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Arts, and holds 8 Honorary Doctorate
degrees. He is a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and Officer of
the Legion of Honor in France, bearer of the German Officer’s Cross of the Order of
Merit, and laureate of the 2023 Praemium Imperiale.
Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory
for the Arts in Water Mill, New York.
Ivan Vazov" National Theatre is the earliest and the most authoritative of Bulgarian stages, having a rich history, firmly anchored in its traditions, with a commanding and protean presence in the modernity of the present. The theatre offers a broad repertoire of both contemporary and classical plays appealing to the widest possible range of audiences. The theatre building was designed by the famous
Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann
Helmer, who were also the designers of the theatre
buildings in Vienna, Odessa, Zagreb, Prague and in
other European cities - all of which have now become
famous landmarks.
The theatre has a techinically well-equipped Main
Stage and Auditorium of 780 seats, a Chamber Stage
with 135 seats and the “Apostol Karamitev” Stage
More than 600 performances and about 10 premieres
are performed in a single theatre season.