Wednesday 23rd April, 4:00pm
York St John University Creative Centre Recital Room (CC/201)
By Nedyalko Yordanov, with an introduction by Boika Sokolova
European reading in performance (Bulgaria)
Elsinore. The Prince is mad, or so everyone says. Rumours abound. A company of players that happens to be around, is invited to give a performance. But will they manage to get out of the palace, and at what cost? Busy with their own petty quarrels, egotisms and infidelities, they fail to notice how they are being drawn into a larger power game, between Polonius and Horatio. They will taste fear, betrayal, humiliation and an unexpected turn of fortune.
Nedyalko Yordanov’s 1989 play about the precarious position of the artist – or any individual – in a world of political surveillance, coercion and ever-shifting allegiances among power elites, reflects both comically and dramatically on the position of theatre under totalitarianism. It just might be that we can discover prescient messages for our own time.
The reading will be preceded by an introduction from Professor Boika Sokolova, University of Notre Dame, USA, in England.
£5 Standard
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