Photo Flash: THIS IS NOT HAMLET At The 35th Annual Directors Festival

The Drama League (Executive Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks) presents DirectorFest 2019: The 35th Annual Directors Festival, the only festival in the United States exploring the art of Contemporary Stage directing, adds to the festival a Bulgarian production of This is NOT Hamlet, conceived and directed by Boyan Kracholov at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (31-10 Thompson Street, Long Island City). Festival programming, tickets and additional details are available at www.directorfest.org, or by calling (212) 244-9494.

The two-member cast for This is NOT Hamlet features Dimitar Krumov and Ivan Nikolov. The Stage Manager is Andrea Berkey.

Someone once said that an actor must eat all the food in the world, drink all the alcohol, and sleep with all of the women. But it wasn't Shakespeare, and it certainly wasn't Hamlet! A mad rollercoaster ride excavating some of the world's most famous playwrights -- Shakespeare, Beckett, Moliere, Cervantes, Stoppard, De La Barca among them -- This Is NOT Hamlet explores the limits of ourselves and the stage, the thin line between reality and illusion. The piece won European prizes when it debuted in 2016 at Sofia's famed Theatre Sfumato.

Bulgarian director Boyan Kracholov earned degrees in Directing from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, and in Philosophy from Sofia University. His most recent work, Memory of Flight, premiered at the Plovdiv Drama Theatre in 2018. He is currently working on a piece combining the opera Faust by Gounod with the play by Goethe, set to premiere at the Pravets Mozart Festival. His first book, "Temple of Dreams," was published in 2017.

This Is NOT Hamlet is presented by The Drama League, The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and Art Office Foundation as part of the Drama League International Stage Directors Exchange.

Photo Credit: Lloyd Mulvey

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