The Thessaloniki Conspirators

**AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS** 🏆 "Ikar" Award 2023 - Margita Goshova for SUPPORTING FEMALE ROLE 🏆 Nomination for "Ikar" 2023 - Stanko Murdzev for DIRECTING 🏆 Nomination for "Ikar" 2023 - Elena Kabasakalova for SUPPORTING FEMALE ROLE 🏆 Nomination for "Ikar" 2023 - Nikola Nalbantov for SCENOGRAPHY 🏆 Nomination for "Ikar" 2023 - MASTERFUL TECHNICAL EXECUTION - DRAMA THEATER "NIKOLAY O. MASALITINOV" – PLOVDIV 🏆 "Plovdiv 2023" Award in the "Theater" category for the play "The Thessaloniki Conspirators" directed by Stanko Murdzev. "THE THESSALONIKI CONSPIRATORS" is a play about the untamed young hearts like barrels of gunpowder. For throats that have only hoarseness and only a cry to the heavens. For the young mind shaken by the irreparable tin building of the world. For the attempt to fix the unjust human dormitory with TNT. "THE THESSALONIKI CONSPIRATORS" revives the untamed character of the Bulgarian epoch at the beginning of the 20th century and tells about the Thessaloniki bomb attacks, carried out in the period 15 – 17 April old style (new style – 28, 29 and 30 April) 1903 in Thessaloniki. Their goal is to provoke the intervention of European states to improve the situation of the still enslaved Bulgarians in Macedonia and Adrianople. The group of Gemidzhii blows up the building of the Ottoman Bank, the French ship "Guadalquivir", the city's lighting is interrupted. "THE THESSALONIKI CONSPIRATORS" is about the young hearts of the constant Bulgarian revolution, which eats its children before it has begun. About their tragic ability to die before they learn to live. About their intoxication with death as the only possible and acceptable way out to freedom. About our inability to think of freedom and life together. **REVIEWS** "I think I last experienced physical aesthetic pleasure from art in the 90s, when I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in the original. Now it happens to me twice. Time Shelter is a novel for which I will quote my father - Georgi Gospodinov is a literary Einstein who creates a literary space-time continuum in a revolutionary style with a deep philosophical and socio-political background. The production The Thessaloniki Conspirators by Georgi Danailov is beautiful. And it is revolutionary." - Iliyana Konakchieva "A very powerful performance tonight at the Plovdiv Drama Theater with the production "The Thessaloniki Conspirators" by Georgi Danailov, directed by Stanko Murdzev, scenography by Nikola Nalbantov and wonderful music by Petar Dundakov, which is worth hearing. They guested on the stage of the National Theater "Ivan Vazov" with this exceptionally complex dramatic work, with a kilometer-long text and everything shouted out loud, which is terribly tiring and exhausting. But the troupe works like a clock, disciplined, the characters are well-crafted, the work colossal. I highly recommend watching the performances of the Plovdiv Theater, meticulously detailed and crafted almost cinematically, this is theater cared for by an exceptional Director, a rare phenomenon in Bulgaria, by very good dramatists and directors, and by wonderful actors. When everyone takes care of one house together, it shines. Look for and watch their performances. It's worth it!" - Rumen Boyadzhiev "The productions you make are magnificent, and "The Thessaloniki Conspirators" is a high-class performance! Bravo!" - Anna Dobрева "Grandiose spectacle, unique artists, impressive performance of the Plovdiv theater!" - Elisaveta Kravaeva