Stefan Tsanev |
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Stefan Tsanev (b. 1936) is one of Bulgaria's most noteworthy writers; an esteemed and productive lyricist, writer, playwright and journalist. He has studied journalism at the University of Sofia in the 1950s and drama at the State Cinematography Institute in Moscow in the 1960s. From 1967 to 1984, he worked as a playwright at the "Satir" and "Sofia" theatres. Since 1984, he has worked at the Plovdiv drama theatre. His debut collection of poems Chasove ("Hours") appeared in 1960, and since then he has written dozens of verse collections and plays and the novel Mravki i Bogove ("Ants and Gods"). Tsanev's latest play Pir po vreme na demokratzija ("Feast During Democracy") was performed in the Sofia Theatre House in March this year for the hundredth time. The theatre's director says that the enduring popularity of the play is due to the fact that, at the time of the premiere four years ago, the audience reacted to different things from what it does now. The play was evidently ahead of its time because now its satire is even more venomous. When he examines phenomena from his own time, Tsanev often employs themes from Antiquity, e.g., in the play Sokrates (1998). He also dissects the state of his own society and of the world in his polemical newspaper articles. |
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