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The Spirit of the Poet

National Theatre "Ivan Vazov"

1 h 15 min

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“The Poet’s Spirit” has been received calmly and without clearly expressed detailed impressions, so no reliable overall feedback about the performance can be singled out.

About the show

A dramatic historical hoax, simultaneously about the past and the present, which takes us to Sofia in the supposedly year 1892 and shows us how former freedom fighters turn into dictators – without staging coups, with the official consent of the people and using all the levers of democracy. A dream of Stefan Stambolov, in which he must decide with Zahariy Stoyanov what to do with the suddenly appeared "poet from the cover of the Reader." The former apostles and current rulers face the hardest choice: what to do with Botev...