Immured

Based on the poem “The Dead Head Spoke To Me” by Maria Stankova

 

 

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Author and Director

 

Veselka Kuncheva

 

 

Puppets, Stage and Costume design

 

Marieta Golomehova

 

 

Original music

 

Hristo Namliev

 

 

Choreography

 

Stefan Vitanov

 

 

Ethnology consultant

 

Veselka Toncheva

 

 

Photos by

 

Ivan Donchev

 

 

Cast

 

Hristo Takov / Stoyan Doychev, Tatiana Etimova / Polina Hristova, Rossen Russev, Jivko Jouranov, Alexander Karamanov, Mihaela Andonova, Natalia Vasileva

 

 

Produced by

 

State Puppet Theatre Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2012

 

 

Duration

 

60 min

“There should be a bridge across any water, and man should walk all over it, coming, and going, and doing what they have to do.”

 

Maria Stankova

 

 

“In order for the bridge to stay imperishable and everlasting, a sacrifice should be laid in its foundations. The builder Manol immures the love of his life – Neda. What are the limits of a creator’s selfishness? What is he ready to do in order to eternalize its creation? 

Which is the border that one should never cross? Does this border exist at all? Man is mortal, while the creation is immortal. Is it a sin to take the first for the sake of the second?

God had created man and had given him a soul. Manol had created a bridge and had immured in it a soul. The soul of his beloved one. For the bridge to stay. Forever!”

 

Veselka Kuncheva

 

 

 

Awards

 

Award for best original music at the 8th International Puppet  Festival for Adults “Pierot”, Bulgaria, 2013

 

Award for best stage design at the 8th International Puppet  Festival for Adults “Pierot”, Bulgaria, 2013

 

Grand Prix for best performance at the 8th International Puppet  Festival for Adults “Pierot”, Bulgaria, 2013

 

Award “Ikar” of Union of Bulgarian Actors for best puppet performance, 2013

 

Award “Ikar” of Union of Bulgarian Actors for best original music, 2013

 

Nomination “Ikar” of Union of Bulgarian Actors for best stage design, 2013

 

Award “Plovdiv” for best performance, 2013

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