January

by Yordan Radichkov

Director: Plamen Markov

Set Design and Costumes: Mira Kalanova

Music: Kalin Nikolov

Cast: Aleksandar Mitev, Vladimir Solakov, Gringo-Bogdan Grigorov, Dimitar Stoynov, Matey Michev, Nedilyana Pavlik, Neno Koynarski, Nikolay Stanev, Teodor Karakachanov, Teodor Kukov, Manoela Manoleva, Ivan Lozanov, Anton Petev, Georgi Bachev

Yordan Radichkov’s January returns to the stage of the Nikola Vaptsarov Dramatic Theatre in Blagoevgrad, nearly four decades after its last production. One of Radichkov’s most iconic plays, the “winter poem” of Bulgarian drama, comes alive on stage once again with its distinctive characters, paradoxical humor, and profound philosophy.

In Radichkov’s text, the harshness of nature and human fears are woven into a mythic fabric, where the strange becomes familiar and the familiar turns into mystery.

January is a performance about boundaries — between human beings and nature, between fear and hope, between the known and the inexplicable. It is a meeting with the great Radichkov — a storyteller of worlds in which myth comes alive in everyday life, and drama carries its quiet, snowy poetry.