NO, THANK YOU

We are inside the theater. On this very day, the theater is empty. Everyone has gone on tour to the village of Trastenik. Only the wardrobe attendant Nevenka (Borisa Sarafova-Cherkelova) has, by chance, been left all alone in the theater. The open day is on the brink of failure. Who will tell the guests about the theater? Unexpectedly, Nevenka, invisible to everyone, finds herself “under the spotlight,” exactly where she has secretly always dreamed of being. What does this seemingly ordinary woman, forced to speak, have to tell us? Will it be precisely on this day that she decides to voice her problems, and what are they? No, this is not a drama, but an attempt—through plenty of laughter, love, and candor, as well as through the talent of Borisa Sarafova-Cherkelova and the direction of Ovanes Torosyan—to see ourselves in one another.

 “Here I grew up here I came of age the city shows its face you давно no longer have that childish face is it a joke, the way I describe it Lovech has changed the young are gone to breathe mischief back into your days but today, like a first tremor, I have decided to give you a smile today, when you are grown I will delight you and not diamonds nor roses will I give, I will present simple words you will hear no, thank you and when and when and when a sunbeam touches you the earth will take you in like a warm rain tears make what? drip-drip-drip drip-drip-drip drip-drip-drip drip-drip-drip tears make drip-drip-drip drip-drip-drip” Song lyrics - Ovanes Torosyan

How many faces can a woman have? And hearts? And when the woman is an actress? How many? And when the woman, the actress, has a one-woman show in which she is sometimes Nevena, sometimes Dara? In the performance “No, Thank You!” actress Borisa Sarafova-Cherkelova, directed by Ovanes Torosyan, will answer all of this through the text by Albena Nenkova.

Director and music - Ovanes Torosyan Dramaturgy and stage adaptation - Albena Nenkova Set and costume design - Borisa Sarafova-Cherkelova Photographer - Georgi Sirkatov Performed by - Borisa Sarafova-Cherkelova Poster - Nikolay Dimitrov NAD