Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
The State
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Alexander Manuiloff’s conceptual work, The State, needs neither director nor actors – it turns the audience into co-authors and players of each performance. Based on the case of young Bulgarians who self-immolated in 2013 as an expression of their protest, the text questions how societies constitute themselves via their common values and what is necessary for people to live together in a state.
by: Alexander Manuiloff
text: Alexander Manuiloff
manuiloff.com
About the artists
Alexander Manuiloff is an award-winning Bulgarian writer, whose plays and dramaturgy works have been staged in Bulgaria, Prague, Berlin and the USA. Scriptwriter of several films that toured many international festivals. Selected as one of the few foreign scholarship holders of Germany’s theatre festival Theatertreffen in 2014, Alexander is the first Bulgarian writer to be ever presented with a text at Berlin’s top theater forum the following year. Part of the exchange programme of the Drama League, New York, 2012. Receiver of the Bulgarian Writers’ Guild Award for the best fiction debut book of the year (for “Film”, 2004). Scholarshipholder of the Charles University, Prague, 1999, and the American foundation TFAS, 2005. His books have been published in Bulgaria, Germany and the USA, and his journalistic writing has also received official accolade by the Association of European Journalists. Alexander is an artist featured by the German-French TV ARTE.
