„Protext“ is a platform, offering a fresh look at the contemporary dramaturgy, the possible spaces for theatre-making and the relationship between the text and the stage.

This debut project presents performance readings of contemporary German dramaturgy, situated in non-theatrical spaces.

„69” by Igor Bauersima

Translated by Gergana Dimitrova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Assistant Director: Vassilena Radeva

Cast: Elena Dimitrova, Petar Meltev

Scenography: Miroslav Yordanov

Music: Branimir Stoykov – bggz

Video and video-mixing: Lyubomir Draganov

First performance took place at: Goethe Institute, main hall, simultaneous interpretation cabins

 “The Ugly One” by Marius von Mayenburg

Translated by Gergana Dimitrova

Director: Vassilena Radeva

Assistant Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Hristo Petkov, Vasil Chitanov, Ognyan Golev, Elen Koleva

Scenography: Venelin Shurelov

Music: Branimir Stoykov – bggz

Video and video-mixing: Lyubomir Draganov

First performance took place at: heating premises of the National Academy of Art

„Bluebeard. Hope of Women” by Dea Loher

Translated by Gergana Dimitrova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Assistant Director: Vassilena Radeva

Cast: Irina Docheva, Elena Dimitrova, Hristo Petkov

Scenography: Elena Shopova, Nikola Nalbantov

Music: Branimir Stoykov – bggz

Video and video-mixing: Lyubomir Draganov

First performance took place at: “Vaska Emanuilova” Art Gallery; Within the exposition of Vaska Emanuilova and outside

“Before / After” by Roland Schimmelpfennig

Translated by Angelina Georgieva

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Assistant Director: Vassilena Radeva

Cast: Anastasia Lyutova, Elena Dimitrova, Irina Docheva, Vasil Chitanov, Zlatko Mitreski, Petko Kamenov, Hristo Petkov

Scenography: Ralitsa Toneva

Music: Branimir Stoykov – bggz, Zlatko Mitreski

Video and video-mixing: Lyubomir Draganov

First performance took place at:

The Czech Cultural Institute, exhibition hall 1st and 2nd level, parlour

Project’s Team:

Organizers: Gergana Dimitrova, Mladen Aleksiev, Miroslava Mariyanova

Directors: Gergana Dimitrova, Vassilena Radeva

Music: bggz 

Animation: Boryana Krasteva

PR: Miroslava Mariyanova

The debut project of the new authors presents two plays of the most recent German dramaturgy in the specific theatre form of stage reading outside the classical borders of theatre. These texts are translated into Bulgarian for the first time following the project’s purposes. The idea behind performance readings is to build a homogeneous art environment, where architectural space, text, actors’ presence, the live music performance and the multimedia represent a united organism of natural oneness between the different elements. Each of the plays takes place in a different space, interconnected with the text’s particulars in its essence.

Faculty of Applied Arts at the National Academy of Arts (Heating Premises); SU “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2007

Presented in: different architectural spaces in Ruse, Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo and Varna