Първото режисьорско поколение в българския театър
The First Stage Director’s Generation in Bulgarian Theatre

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the advent and the establishing of the figure of stage director and the critical role played by him or her in creating a performance in Bulgaria’s national theatrical life in the interwar period. To this end, the work and experiments of several emblematic directors are analysed, who have been widely recognized or have made their first steps into the field of stage in the 1920s and 1930s, such as Nikolay Massalitinov (1880–1961) and Chrisan Tsankov (1890–1971). It was this group that had formed the first stage director’s generation in Bulgarian theatre. So that to give the broad strokes of the profile of this first stage director’s generation generation, the study reconstructs the theatrical aesthetics and individual styles of Geo Milev, Isaac Daniel, Nikolay Massalitinov, Chrisan Tsankov, commenting on the stage experiments of Boyan Danovski, Alexander Ikonografov, Nikolay Fol, Stefan Surchadjiev and Krustio Mirsky, who came to theatre in the decade preceding the end of WW2, as well as of the overall cultural and theatrical context, in which they came to put on their productions. In conclusion, an inference is drawn that in the 1920s and 1930s, Bulgarian theatre witnessed the advent, shaping and establishing of the figure of stage director enjoying director’s proper, i.e. modern status first of all at the National Theatre and partially, in some other companies. The end of WW2 found Bulgarian theatre as represented by well-developed and fully-fledged director’s theatre, actor’s theatre and experimental director’s theatre.

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