The Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

adapted by Stefan Belov

Director: Bisirka Kolevska

Set and Costume Design: Marina Raychinova

Music: Krasimir Geshev, Evgeni Gospodinov

Lyrics: Tsvetomira Tsoneva

Choreography: Zornitsa Peneva

Multimedia Environment: Petko Tanchev

Cast:

Milenka Sotirova, Maria Pencheva, Martina Georgieva, Liliya Tihova, Ioana Hristova, Simona Zuliyanova, Yana Bozhanin, Ivan Kaloshev, Krasimir Nenkov, Borislav Vezhenov, Borche Manev, Todor Kotsev, Aleksandar Borislavov, Ilcho Dimitrov

"The Wizard of Oz" raises a very important question for me — why do we allow ourselves to live in grayness?!?

My dream is to make children dream, to believe in the impossible, because it is possible, as long as you practice enough. To keep them from giving up before they cross beyond the rainbow. To help adults return to their childhood.

"The child is the father of the man..." writes Goethe.

Do not close the door to the children's room; leave it open so you can return to the colorful world of childhood, where there are good fairies, evil wizards, talking birds, and walking trees.

Dream!

Everything begins with a dull, faded gray color, where even people have gone wild, and their thoughts and dreams—if they have any at all—have turned gray along with them. Only Dorothy is a splash of color in the gray picture. Her desire to find herself in the colorful rainbow is so strong that it brings about a tornado that tears her away from the real world and carries her off into the world of fairy tales.

In this new, vibrant, and beautiful world, she grows both intellectually and emotionally, discovers friendship, learns to recognize hypocrisy and protect herself from evil. She emerges from the story beyond the rainbow brave, intelligent, loving, and grown up.

— Bisirka Kolevska