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Glasnost Comes to Bulgaria |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: John Elsom |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,158 Words, 13,180 Characters |
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The second Theater in a Suitcase Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, stared out with the best of intentions, "May the endless paths of art," reads the festival booklet, "merge in these days into a general inspiration."
The Theater in a Suitcase Festival is a starting example of cultural glasnost but one which also shows the strengths and the weaknesses of glasnost, and where it fails to achieve its aims. What was needed was either a much greater degree of openness than the authorities would allow or a much tighter control over the entries.
In the West, many fringe festivals happen by accident. No-body plans them. There may be an official festival to which companies are invited; but then students turn up uninvited and put on shows in the streets or in cellars. They stay with friends in the ...
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... Beckett and finding Shakespeare; and that perhaps was its great contribution - not just to the artists in Bulgaria, but throughout the Balkans and, indeed, elsewhere. It reminded them that art is not just fashion, that it has much deeper roots in all our histories, and that artistic freedom does not simply mean doing what you like but gives you the chance to do what you feel to be necessary.
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