Because That's What Mother Likes

Translation: Neli Dimova Director: Lilia Abadjieva

Set and Costume Design: Vasil Abadjiev

Photography: Ivan Abadjiev

Cast: Svejen Mladenov, Mariana Zikich, Donka Avramova–Bocheva, Anatoli Lazarov, Georgi Zlatarev, Lili Shomova, Boyan Mladenov, Kaloyan Karaginev, Hristo Botev Stanchev

Through an exaggerated, comic lens, the play Because That's What Mother Likes makes us realize that our artificial life distances us from our essential selves—or from the life we long to have.

In the aristocratic home of the Gianutri family in Bergamo, the family has gathered to honor the memory of Salvatore, Mrs. Maria’s youngest son. But then a mysterious stranger arrives, exposing the lie in which they all live. “Does it really matter whether we are real or copies? Don’t we cry and laugh in exactly the same way as those we would like to be? Will you ever reach the stars—and does it really matter whether you love or tell lies?”