STATE PUPPET THEATRE - PLOVDIV, BULGARIA
State Puppet Theatre – Plovdiv was found in 1946. It has been awarded with the Order of St. Cyril and Methodius - first degree. More than 340 production have been presented during the 73 theatrical seasons. About 5 new performances are produced every year and presented to nearly 30 000 spectators. The company has toured in more than 40 countries, taking part in many international festivals and wining more than 80 prestigious awards. Six of the performances of the Theatre are included in the “Golden Fund” of the Bulgarian National Television.
Since 1977 State Puppet Theatre – Plovdiv has been organizing a festival “An International Review of the Puppet Miniature” which since 1990 has been resumed under the name “Three Are Too Many, Two - Not Enough”.
Queen of Spades - Pierrot 2017
Duration: 100 min.
Language: Bulgarian
Directed by: Veselka Kuncheva
Stage design: Marieta Golomehova
Music: Hristo Namliev
Choreography: Stefan Vitanov
Cast: Polina Hristova, Plamen Dimov, Eva Danailova, Zhivko Dzhuranov, Maria Dimitrova, Michaela Andonova, Natalia Vasileva, Velizar Evtimov, Alexander Karamanov
The card game or the game of fate. A game in which we yearn to win and to achieve happiness, love, realization, power. This game swirled our desires. Desires that slowly swell, conquer us, subjugate us, and finally suck us into their element to spit us back - disfigured and deformed images of human beings. Or desires suppressed, numbed, silenced by fear and uncertainty that leave us to anticipate the routine of our gray daily life, awaiting mystical salvation.
"Queen of Spades" is a spectacle of salvation and damnation, torn passion and false humility.