The Son | Play | National Theatre "Ivan Vazov"
11 June, Sunday 19:00 Main stage

The Son

by Florian Zeller
translation by Snezhina Rusinova-Zdravkova
Duration
01 h 50 m
Genre
Drama
Age restriction
Not suitable for persons under 12

Production team:

Directors
Diana Dobreva
Set Designer
Mira Kalanova
Composer
Petya Dimanova
Choreographer
Deyan Georgiev
Costume designer
Mira Kalanova

"The Son"

by Florian Zeller

 

Creatives:

Director - Diana Dobreva

Set & Costume Designer - Mira Kalanova

Music by Petya Dimanova

Choreographer - Deyan Georgiev

 

Cast:

Zachary Baharov, Vladimir Penev, Teodora Duhovnikova, Alexander Tonev, Aneta Ivanova

 

A year or so after theatregoers were awestruck by her production of The Father, NT director Diana Dobreva put on the Main Stage the critically acclaimed The Son by Florian Zeller, the last play in his trilogy.

With The Son (2019) the French playwright made a hat-trick, beginning with The Mother (2012), then The Father (2015).

With the first premieres this year of the latest production (on 17, 18 January), Zachary Baharov makes a comeback to the National Theatre stage. Also starring Theodora Duhovnikova and Vladimir Penev, who played in The Father. The cast includes also the young Annetta Ivanova and Alexander Tonev.

The tense and thrilling plot could well be ‘borrowed’ by Florian Zeller from the drama of any contemporary family these days: divorced parents; their troubled teenage son no longer trusting them and facing a communication breakdown, attempts to ‘scream mutely’ his pain and longing for a family and understanding.

The boy lives with his mother, where a depressing and chilly atmosphere of loneliness pervades, lacking her affection and support, agonisingly missing his father, who has started a stepfamily and has another child. The kid responds by skipping months of school; closing in on himself, cloistering himself behind imaginary protective walls, rebelling in his own way.

Does his behaviour come as a response to the fact that the chemistry isn’t there between the ex-spouses, who are his parents? To playing the blame game? To an upheaval in the stepfamily? To reconciliation?

The Son by Florian Zeller is all about a big and thorny question addressed to all of us from the stage: Does love come at a price? Or you can’t put a price on love?

The play was translated by Snezhina Rusinova–Zdravkova; set and costume design by Mira Kalanova; music by Petya Dimanova; choreography by Deyan Georgiev.

 

In-house dramatist - Mirela Ivanova

Assistant director - Olga Nedialkova

Poster photographer - Pavel Chervenkov

Leaflet photographer - Bozhidar Markov

Poster and leaflet designer - Yanina Petrova

 

Premieres on 17, 18 January 2020

 

Unsuitable for those aged under 12

Running time - 1 hr 50 m, no interval

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