Stancho Stanchev
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Stancho Georgiev Stanchev (in Bulgarian
Станчо Георгиев Станчев) is a Bulgarian theatre director.
, Bulgaria
. Graduated the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
(NATFA), Sofia in 1955, specialty theatre directing under Prof. Boyan Danovski.
He postgraduated at the Vakhtangov Theatre under Evgeny Simonov and at the Theatre of Satira under Valentin Pluchek in Moscow
.
He has staged more than 100 plays by Bulgarian and foreign playwrights on the stages of the drama theatres in Varna
, Ruse, Shumen
, Sofia
, Moscow, Silistra
, Pazardzhik
.
He is a spouse of the artist Daria Vassilyanska
.
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
Станчо Георгиев Станчев) is a Bulgarian theatre director.
Biography
Born on 5 Septembre 1932 in PlovdivPlovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. Graduated the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
The Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts is an institution of higher education based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria...
(NATFA), Sofia in 1955, specialty theatre directing under Prof. Boyan Danovski.
He postgraduated at the Vakhtangov Theatre under Evgeny Simonov and at the Theatre of Satira under Valentin Pluchek in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
.
He has staged more than 100 plays by Bulgarian and foreign playwrights on the stages of the drama theatres in Varna
Varna
Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
, Ruse, Shumen
Shumen
Shumen is the tenth-largest city in Bulgaria and capital of Shumen Province. In the period 1950–1965 it was called Kolarovgrad, after the name of the communist leader Vasil Kolarov...
, Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, Moscow, Silistra
Silistra
Silistra is a port city of northeastern Bulgaria, lying on the southern bank of the lower Danube at the country's border with Romania. Silistra is the administrative centre of Silistra Province and one of the important cities of the historical region of Southern Dobrudzha...
, Pazardzhik
Pazardzhik
Pazardzhik is a city situated along the banks of the Maritsa river, Southern Bulgaria. It is the capital of Pazardzhik Province and centre for the homonymous Pazardzhik Municipality...
.
He is a spouse of the artist Daria Vassilyanska
Daria Vassilyanska
Daria Kozmova Vassilyanska is a Bulgarian artist.-Biography:Born on 28 November 1928 in Varna, Bulgaria. Graduated the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 1955, specialty painting, under Prof. Iliya Petrov....
.
Career
- 1955–1959 - stage director at the *Vasil Drumev Dramatic Theatre in Shumen
- 1959–1962 - stage director at the Sava Ognianov Dramatic Theatre in Ruse
- 1962–1992 - stage director, artistic director of the Stoyan Bachvarov Dramatic TheatreStoyan Bachvarov Dramatic TheatreThe Stoyan Bachvarov Dramatic Theatre is a theatre in Varna, Bulgaria, founded in 1921 as the Municipal Professional Theatre. It occupies a historic building in the centre of the city designed by Nikola Lazarov and built between 26 March 1912 and 5 June 1932. The building was finished by the...
in Varna
Performances
- The CrucibleThe CrucibleThe Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
, Arthur MillerArthur MillerArthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...
, Drama Theatre, Shumen, 1955–56 - Le Baruffe Chiozzotte /The Chioggia Scuffles/, Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
, Drama Theatre, Shumen, 1956 - Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
, Drama Theatre, Shumen, 1958 - Buonanotte Patrizia, Aldo De BenedettiAldo De BenedettiAldo De Benedetti was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 118 films between 1920 and 1982.He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* What Scoundrels Men Are! * Mr...
, Drama Theatre, Shumen, 1958 - The General and the Mad, Angel Vagenshtain, Drama Theatre, Ruse, 1961
- De Pretore Vincenzo, Eduardo De FilippoEduardo De FilippoEduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.-Biography:...
, Drama Theatre, Ruse, 1959 - Duel, Ivan VazovIvan VazovIvan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....
, Drama Theatre Varna, 1962-63 - Around the World in Eighty Days, Pavel KohoutPavel KohoutPavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in 1970s until he was expelled to Austria...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1965–66 - The InvestigationThe Investigation (play)The Investigation is a play by Peter Weiss written in 1965 which depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. It premiered on October 19, 1965 on stages in fourteen West and East German cities and at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. It carries the subtitle "Oratorio in 11 Cantos"...
/Die Ermittlung/, Peter WeissPeter WeissPeter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1966–67 - As You Like ItAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
, William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1972–73 - January Yordan RadichkovYordan RadichkovYordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1974–75 - The Roman Bath Stanislav StratievStanislav Stratiev-Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1974–75 - The Good Soldier ŠvejkThe Good Soldier ŠvejkThe Good Soldier Švejk , also spelled Schweik or Schwejk, is the abbreviated title of a unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek. It was illustrated by Josef Lada and George Grosz after Hašek's death...
, Jaroslav HašekJaroslav HašekJaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and socialist anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1975–76 - The Suede Jacket, Stanislav Stratiev, Pushkin Theatre, Moscow, 1977
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon MarigoldsThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon MarigoldsThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the work. The play's world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre...
, Paul ZindelPaul ZindelPaul Zindel Jr. was an American playwright, author, and educator.-Early years:Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York to Paul Zindel,Sr., a policeman, and Beatrice Frank, a nurse; his sister, Betty Hagen, was a year and a half older than he. Paul Zindel, Sr...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1978–79 - The Suede Jacket, Stanislav Stratiev, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1978–79
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation, with music by Teiji Ito, made its Broadway preview on November 12, 1963, its premiere on November 13, and ran until January 25, 1964 for a total of one preview and 82...
, after Ken KeseyKen KeseyKenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a...
, stage adaptation Dale WassermanDale WassermanDale Wasserman was an American playwright. -Early life:Dale Wasserman was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and was orphaned at the age of nine. He lived in a state orphanage and with an older brother in South Dakota before he "hit the rails". He later said:-Career:Wasserman worked in various...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1979–80 - Little Comedies, after Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
/A Marriage ProposalA Marriage ProposalA Marriage Proposal is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890...
, On the Harmful Effects of TobaccoOn the Harmful Effects of TobaccoOn the Harmful Effects of Tobacco is a one act play with only one character , written by Russian author Anton Chekhov.-Plot:...
, JubileeJubilee-Anniversaries and celebrations:*Jubilee , Royal Jubilee years are depicted in Egyptian history*Jubilee , the Jubilee year specified in the Torah*Jubilee , a special year for the remission of sins and universal pardon...
, A Swan Song/, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1979–80 - Archangels Don’t Play Pinball, Dario FoDario FoDario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1981 - Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de BergeracHercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand...
, Edmond RostandEdmond RostandEdmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1981–82 - Revizor /The Government Inspector/, Nikolay V. Gogol, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1986–87
- All House, Bed and Church, Dario Fo, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1986–87
- The Holy Family, György SchwajdaGyörgy SchwajdaGyörgy Schwajda was a Hungarian dramatist and theater director. Schwajda wrote several dramas and was the theater director of the city theater in Kaposvar.He died after a long serious illness in Kaposvar, Hungary....
, 1988-89 - The Last Tape /Krapp's Last TapeKrapp's Last TapeKrapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. Consisting of a cast of one man, it was originally written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue"...
/, Samuel BeckettSamuel BeckettSamuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1991–92 - The Basement, Murray SchisgalMurray SchisgalMurray Schisgal is an American playwright and screenwriter.Native New Yorker Schisgal won his first recognition for the 1963 off-Broadway double-bill The Typists and The Tiger, which won him the Drama Desk Award. His 1965 Broadway debut, Luv, earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Play and...
, State Puppet Theatre VarnaState Puppet Theatre VarnaThe State Puppet Theatre - Varna was founded in 1952. More than 250 productions have been put on its stage, more than 20 0000 performances have been played, all of them seen by more than 8 million spectators here and abroad....
, 1993 - Nora /A Doll's HouseA Doll's HouseA Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premièred at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month....
/, Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, Art Club Sezam, Varna, 1995 - A Miracle, Ivan Radoev, Drama Theatre, Pazardzhik, 1995
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider...
, Edward AlbeeEdward AlbeeEdward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
, Drama Theatre, Varna, 1996–97 - L’enseineur ou Une ombre au tableau, Jean-Pierre Dopagne, Drama Theatre, Varna, 2003
External links
- photos of performances
- Bulgarian portal
- state puppet theatre varna
- drama theatre varna - awards
- article of Lyubomir Kutin about the performance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- essay of Siya Papazova
- archives of the Drama Theatre, Shumen
Source
- Encyclopedia of Bulgarian Theatre, p. 370, publishing house "Trud", Sofia, 2005