Un(Married)
after Hanokh Levin
Translation: Terry Fisher
Director: Terry Fisher
Set and Costume Design: Elena Ivanova
Composer: Emiliyan Gatsov-Elbi
Choreography: Mila Iskrenova
Constructor: Borislav Tonev-Bucky
Cast:
- Svezhen Mladenov
- Zhana Rasheva
- Georgi Zlatarev
- Mariana Zhikich
- Hrista Botev Stanchev
UN(MARRIED) is an anti-romantic comedy in which everyone is smarter than usual, yet everyone is forced to get married.
Marriage promises no joy, but freedom threatens them with social failure, bearing the label “old bachelors and old maids.”
With Hamlet’s intelligence and hesitations, poised on the boundary between self-loathing and arrogance, our hero must choose between two women he cannot stand. He must choose between an elusive heroism and the horror of settling into the life of an average loser. Yet facing him are two dangerously intelligent ladies and two virtuoso seducers—pick-up artists. And so, five people are pitted against one another with the aim of getting married, despite not wanting to.
Hanokh Levin continues in the tradition of Gogol and Molière, except that living people emerge from the character-types, with their frank, exposed, and unsentimental strategy for sexual survival.
Love is bittersweet for the poets of love, and Hanokh Levin’s laughter on love’s flip side is bittersweet too.
— Terry Fisher