Lecture № 1 on Folk Art
author's play by Kamen Donev

29 June 2020, 9:00 p.m.
Ancient Theater, 2a Tsar Ivaylo Str
Tickets: Ticket office at the theater and online at https://tickets.dtp.bg/

A show with songs, dances, improvisations and examples of life!

Folk art is creativity, created by the people. That's it! It comes mainly from the villages, ie. out of town. But even what is born in the town can still be called a folk art, because the people in the town are usually from the villages.

This is best seen at the weekends, when people go to the villages or people from the villages visit the town to sell what they grow in their own villages and to buy from the town what is missing from there. The so-called folk artist learns, remembers, performs, but he must also interpret, fantasize and enrich mainly with love and to pass the enriched with whole heart to his heirs.

The important thing, however, is that in folk art no one wants to spoil what has been done, and vice versa - to make it better. Just like beans.

The topic we will deal with is: the rediscovery of folk art and its widespread application in everyday life to improve the health, efficiency, communication and recreation of people. Folk songs and dances can help to cope up with life's adversities, stress, loneliness, boredom, musculoskeletal problems, fatigue, negative emotions, communication. As well as to apply in the whole range of the working week, the two days off and the time spent personally.

The show is not suitable for people under 14 years.

Since its premiere on October 16, 2007, the show has been performed 500 times. Favorite lines from the performance are spread by word of mouth throughout Bulgaria and beyond - as a folk art. Kamen Donev blew dozens of Bulgarian cities with laughter. He is the only performer to fill Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture (a hall with 4,000 seats) 16 times, with the same title. Both compatriots and foreigners in Moscow, St. Petersburg (II International Festival "Balkan Theater Space"), Berlin, Luxembourg, Vienna and Brussels were laughing. The actor returned from the prestigious Golden Knight International Theater Festival in Moscow with a bronze statuette. The one-man show was recognized at all theater festivals in the country.

Awards of the show
Comedy hit of the season 2008 - audience award for the author's performance of Kamen Donev "The views of a teacher on folk art"
International Festival "Drumevi Theater Festival", Shumen 2008 - award for male role
International Theater Festival BGMOT 2008, Gabrovo - award for male role
National Festival of Small Theater Forms Vratsa 2008 - third prize for male role and award for best musical and singing actor
"Balkan Theatrical Euro Portraits", Blagoevgrad 2008 - award for male role and audience award
International Theater Festival "Golden Knight", Moscow - bronze "Knight"
Favorite 13 Award, Dimitrovgrad, 2009
The Ice Mask Award from the Sava Ognyanov Theater in Ruse for staging 2009

For more information: https://dtp.bg/