INTERNATIONAL
TRIENNIAL OF STAGE POSTER - SOFIA
Everything else can be
dispensed with, but there
must by all means be
footlights to divide the
world into two worlds.
Man carries this dividing
line within himself, but the
theatre brings it to light,
so that it can be seen
and touched. That is why,
overcome by
an unexpected sense
of responsibility, I wrote
a letter to the ministers
of Culture and the Interior,
suggesting that a Theatre
police corps be instituted
in order to guard the
boundary between reality
and fiction; to see to it that
the list of characters and
actors in the spectacles
has a prohibitive power
with respect to all other
persons; to intervene in
disturbances and to have
the authority to remove as
a precaution all suspicious
spectators with a
pronounced "penchant for
the fictional." I approached
Zapryan Marinov, the
leading Bulgarian fashion
designer, asking him to
make designs for the
costumes of the Theatre
police.
