‘KuklArt’ Magazine
Issue 7/2013
Dear reader,
Let us also allow ourselves to interpret – as in the biblical myth of Joseph – the dream of the seven fat cows that are eaten by the seven lean cows. The former were good, and the latter, of course, ugly.
In the storms of our weekdays, left breathless by the constant incorporation, we, as a little Sisyphus, have been pushing the big stone of KuklArt on the hill of time for seven years now.
This is our seventh effort – the seventh issue.
We are convinced that the edition is needed by the puppet class. It is even more important that AКT-UNIMA, Bulgaria also thinks so and does its best to keep it published.
But the money is still not enough and we are losing a number of already conquered territories. This issue is more than twice as thin as the previous one, with fewer illustrations, with much less translated text. Again, without the rubric ‘Spectaclography’, which kept for posterity what was done by the puppet theaters in our country (again, we received the necessary information only from 6-7 theatres, and so we cannot talk about a more complete picture).
But back to the beginning. Are these first seven years, these first seven issues, from the ‘skinny’ or the ‘fat’? What awaits KuklArt?
This will be decided by you, your interest, your devotion to the puppet theater, which fills our common days and dreams…
Nikola Vandov
Editor-in-chief
Articles Contents
Theory, History, Experience, Polemics
„50 Years of Higher Education in Puppet Theater“ – a Book with Great Variety of Topics
— Vasil Stefanov
Contents
Dear Readers… – Nikola Vandov
Theory, History, Experience, Polemics
Puppet Theater and the Future – Rumen Rachev
A Never-ending Story or 50 Years of Higher Education in Puppet – Stanislava Kirilova
‘50 Years of Higher Education in Puppet Theater’ – a Book with Great Variety of Topics – Vasil Stefanov
50 Years of UNIMA – Bulgaria – Slavcho Malenov
About the Topic of the Main Function of the Puppets – Boris Goldovski
Festivals and Forums
The National ‘Mihail Lakatnik’ Puppet Theatre Festival, Yambol, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
‘Mihail Lakatnik’ 2013 Festival – Katerina Georgieva
Lost and Found Dreams – Vilia Monovska
Conversations from Yambol – Boryana Georgieva talks to Boris Goldovski, Angel Popov, Biserka Kolevska and Elena Doicheva
ХІV International Festival of Children’s Performances ‘The Magic Curtain’, Targovishte, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
The Festival that We All Need in the Search of Our Own Identity – Nikola Vandov
International Puppet Theatre Festival ‘Three Are Too Many – Two Not Enough’, Unit TheatAir 2013, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
TheatAir – Street Theater for Everyone – Bogdana Kosturkova
The Street as a Theater or the Initiative that Changes Fates – Katerina Georgieva
Conversations from Plovdiv – Boryana Georgieva talks to Victor Boychev, Veselka Kuncheva, Marieta Golomehova and Ashton Ka
8th International Puppet Theatre Festival for Adults ‘Pierrot 2013’, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
Myself – Pierrot – Mihail Baykov
Pierrot 2013 – Nikola Vandov talks to the Jury Chairwoman Svetla Beneva
Sensations, caused by ‘Breath’ – Stanislava Kirilova
Festival, My Love! – Silvia Hristova talks to the Theater Managers Darin Petkov, Tatiana Kalcheva and Vera Stoikova
3rd International Art Festival ‘The Magic Of The Wind’, Sliven, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
The Synthesis As…? – Stanislava Kirilova
Conversations from Sliven – Boryana Georgieva talks to Efimia Pavlova, Gabriella Hadzikostova and Yuki
2nd International Performing Arts Festival for Children and Youth Audience ‘Adults Forbidden’, Smolyan, Bulgaria
‘Adults Forbidden’ – Art as the Purest Way of Reaction – Katerina Georgieva
The Will to Go On Against All Odds – Mitko Novkov talks to Petar Todorov
Reviews
The Magic Tinder – Mihail Baykov
The Repair of Broken Human Being – Teodora Kafedzhieva
‘Puppet Stage Design for a Fairy Tale’ – Nikolina Georgieva
In a Shakespeare Mood – Violeta Decheva
Forgiveness is a gift, less frequent than revenge – Svetlana Pancheva
In memoriam
Atanas Ilkov (27.12.1924 – 26.4.2013) – Slavcho Malenov, Kiryakos Argiropoulos, Jenny Pashova, Petar Pashov
Nikola Krastev – Krum Gergitzov
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