The protest against The National Theater is another funny occasion to tear off our shirts and cry our hearts out “Down!“ and “Long live!“, but there are some details that are important if we want to understand what is really going on.
Why is it funny?
This is what he commented on 'Facebook" Ivo Siromakhov.
Because the people's anger is not directed at the theater. Nor is it aimed at director John Malkovich, who is undoubtedly a great artist. The anger is directed at a play written 130 years ago. Its author, George Bernard Shaw, is long dead. And there is no way to protect his text.
Some people have now thought to insult the dead author and protest against what he wrote 130 years ago.
It is a curious fact that Bernard Shaw's play has already been staged twice in Bulgaria and not long ago – in 1995 at the Vratsa Theater and in 2010 at the Ruse Theater. There was then no objection from the wide-awake patriotic public to the play. Even the director Polyakov received an award at some festival. And then everyone was happy. And now suddenly they find themselves unhappy.
It turns out the problem isn't the play. I am convinced that none of the protesters tonight have read it and have no idea what it says. Someone told them that the play is anti-Bulgarian, but is it so – they don't know. (I have personally read the play and it is quite simple, but that is not important). The problem is not John Malkovich – the guy was invited on tour and didn't do anything to us. The problem is somewhere else.
Let's think about where it might be.
Let's see who runs the National Theater. Someone is Vasil Vassilev – a man with a dubious creative biography. This unknown man suddenly became famous for the fact that when he was elected director of the National Theater, he appointed Ahmed Dogan's publicist - the famous Velislava Krasteva - as the theater's publicist. She, after being appointed publicist of the National Theater, continued to accompany Dogan to the polling stations and looked at him with adoration. This disgusting action caused the rebellion of the best Bulgarian director Alexander Morfov. “Does the DPS manage the National Theater?”, he asked, and because of this question he was fired by the director Vasil Vassilev.
VASIL VASILEV CHOSE DOGAN OVER MORFOV.
Then there were also protests in front of the National Theater. The protests were much more modest and considerably more cultured. Because the protesters were artists. Moral and decent people who knew why they were there.
Their voice was not heard. Dogan's publicist remained in the theater, and Morfov was thrown out. Officials defeated the creator. As has happened many times in our history.
Vasilev continued to manage the National Theater as he pleased, firing and appointing whoever he wanted, and the publicist Krasteva at some point decided that the theater was not her great love and left it. Her great love suddenly turned out to be Delyan Peevski, and she became passionately and devotedly involved in building his new party. It's time for a New Beginning for her.
And today we see some inexplicable protest in front of the National Theater. Against a play written 130 years ago. And which no one has read.
I have three questions:
1. Why does this protest in a strange way coincide with the moment of the most maligned elections in which votes were brutally bought?
2. Is there any politician's interest now in arguing on social media about a play we don't know, instead of our anger being directed at the criminal politicians who are messing with the people's vote?
3. Is the dead George Bernard Shaw the most dangerous enemy of the Bulgarians or the living Delyan Peevski and Boyko Borisov, who are currently agreeing on a government and are already distributing ministries and state money?
I have an answer to these questions.
Do you have any?