В огледалото на времето... (за мюзикъла „Алис в Страната на сънищата“ от Любомир Денев)
In the Mirror of Time... (About the Musical “Alice in Dreamland” by Lubomir Denev)

Summary/Abstract: Existential philosophical issues, decoding of the hidden meanings in language games, of the logical paradoxes and the fantastic adventures in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are subject to interpretation “to date” in Lubomir Denev’s “Alice in Dreamland”, adapted and staged by the composer as a university show at the Training Theatre of the New Bulgarian University. From the viewpoint of critical reflections however, the first version of the musical based on a dramatic version by Zdravko Mitkov, “Through the Looking Glass”, premiered at the Youth Theatre (1988) and performed later at Sofia Theatre (1999) also deserves attention. Though based on the same story and using the music by the same composer, Lubomir Denev, the two versions of the musical have different storylines, dramaturgy, characters and messages, making their comparison inevitable. The distinction lies mostly in the different concepts, in the pre-selection of the characters and of the action situations from the two books, underlying the drama conflicts and the logic of the storylines.

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