Theatrical performance and interview with Bina Haralampieva

Bina Haralampieva is a Bulgarian theater director. She has over 35 years of professional experience as a theater, opera and television director. She has staged over 100 productions on various stages in the country and has 20 years of experience as a director of theater institutions. Haralampieva’s productions have been awarded at prestigious theater forums in Bulgaria and have been performed in Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Israel, Austria, Germany, England, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

When Bina Haralampieva became the leader of the Small City Theater “Behind the Canal”, she staged her program performance “Romeo and Juliet”, in which almost the entire troupe of the theater participated.

The play expresses the emotional and energetic movements of the Bulgarian society in the time after the democratic changes, in the period of transition. Studying the “Balkan syndrome”, Bina Haralampieva shows interest in the topic of inner discomfort of man in the context of the society around him. She examines the imperfection that man carries within himself, and which he cannot reconcile with the social rules he has created, with the world around him, which he has arranged himself not according to his own spiritual needs.

In fact, this theme is central to the director’s work and focuses her search throughout the period, beginning with “Descent from Mount Morgan” and ending with “Robbers.”

For the first time in the show “Harold and Maud”, Bina Haralampieva tries to explore the moments of happiness, not those of unhappiness, she is curious about the person living in harmony with herself.