THE ILLUSION

"THE ILLUSION" by Pierre Corneille, translated by Pencho Simov

Stage version and direction: Nikolay Yordanov Set design and costumes: David Ilchev Music: David Kokonchev

Cast: Dobromir Tsvetkov, Luboslava Marinova, Navid Afzali, Nikol Karabinova, Nikolay Nikolaev, Nikolay Stoimenov, Tihomir Blagoev

Poster: Hristo Hristov

"The Illusion" is a comedy that confronts us with ourselves. It confronts us with our own personalities. It also confronts us with theatre. This is a theatrical composition — a performance that tries to resemble itself. Only in this way can we attack the theme of the self and reality — through the expectations we have of ourselves. By layering theatrical realities and deconstructing them, we will test the possibilities of the hypertrophied, perfect self, the one in the mirror.

Where will the boundary between realities crack, or do they inevitably go hand in hand? Which is more real — reality or theatre?

Nikolay Yordanov