AN ATTEMPT AT FLYING
by Yordan Radichkov
Director: Nedyalko Delchev
Set design: Boris Hadzhigeorgiev
Composer: Plamen Mirchev-Mirona
Video: Dimitar Sardzhev
Cast: Aleksey Kozhukharov (guest), Ventsislav Petkov, Ivaylo Spasimirov, Ivaylo Draganov, Milen Dimitrov, Yovko Kanev, Krum Berkov, Rostislav Pankov, Borislav Apostolov, Kadri Habil, Todor Lazarov, Nadya Bancheva, Evgeniya Yavasheva, Dona Vulova, Eva Danailova
“Radichkov, they say, is a universe.
He populated his world with innocents and schemers, dreamers and doers, mystics and realists. He created characters who lead you along a path both familiar and close — yet also fantastic and otherworldly.
Radichkov is a poet. His world is governed by metaphysical laws — by longing and fear, by faith and doubt, by the thirst for something beyond ourselves. All his characters are born of Daedalus’ rib: airborne people, temporarily grounded, temporarily anchored to everyday care. Beings raised on tiptoe, on invisible stilts — levitating above the mud, striving to glimpse something more than what is allotted to them. People of weak gravity, birdlike and winged.
„Flight is their essence. Floating in the sky is their natural state of spirit.
And so they rise above huts, pumpkins and pigs.
And take us by the hand to soar among the clouds for at least an hour — we, the hurried inhabitants of concrete blocks.”
Nedyalko Delchev
The Ruse State Drama Theatre has frequently staged the works of Yordan Radichkov. Among the productions presented on its stage are January (1975, dir. Petar Alexandrov; 2010, dir. Alexander Berovski), Lazaritsa (1979, dir. Petar Alexandrov; 2004, dir. Alexander Berovski), Baskets (1983, dir. Slavi Shkarov), Turmoil (1989, dir. Elena Tsikova), and An Attempt at Flying (2002, dir. Alexander Berovski).