Mother Courage and Her Children - DCT "Vasil Drumev" Shumen - Todor Kolev Festival

🎨The performance is part of the program of the Comedy Festival "Todor Kolev" 2026, which will take place from June 26 to June 30 in the city of Shumen.🎊

❗️PREMIERE IN SHUMEN❗️
🎭 MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
✍️ by Bertolt Brecht

📆 JUNE 29 ⏰ 19:00
📍 DCT "VASIL DRUMEV" / MAIN HALL
🎟️ Tickets for the performance, as well as for all events in the program of the Comedy Festival "Todor Kolev" 2026, can be purchased from:
➡️ the box office of DCT "Vasil Drumev" – Shumen
➡️ Ticket Center – Summer Theater Shumen
➡️ OMV / FastPay boxes
➡️ online at https://entase.to/0MZ or https://www.kupibileti.bg/bg/about-event/2312
☎️ For more information: 0896 140 044 / 0889 288 566 / 0896 695 400

❗EXTENDED WORKING HOURS AT THE BOX OFFICES ON THE DAYS OF THE PERFORMANCES❗

For the convenience of the audience, on the days of the performances, the box offices of DCT "Vasil Drumev" - Shumen and Ticket Center - Summer Theater Shumen will operate with extended hours - until the start of the respective event.

The working hours will be adjusted according to the stage on which each performance is held.

Thus, every viewer will have the opportunity to purchase a ticket directly on site, just before the start of the performance. 🎟️

🏆 The performance is among the most awarded theatrical events of the season and receives high recognition from the professional community. It is a winner of the IKAR 2025 Awards 🏅 in the category "Leading Female Role" for Albena Pavlova and in the category "Scenography" – for Nikola Toromanov (scenography) and Svila Velichkova (costumes), and is also nominated for IKAR 2025 ⭐ in the categories: "Leading Female Role" – Albena Pavlova, "Supporting Female Role" – Nikol Georgieva (class Kalin Sarmeonov, class of 2024 at TK “Lyuben Groys”), "Directing" – Stoyan Radev, "Scenography and Costumes" – Nikola Toromanov and Svila Velichkova, and "Original Music" – Milen Kukosharov. The production has also been awarded the "Askeer" Awards 2025 🏆 for "Scenography" – Nikola Toromanov, and for "Leading Female Role" – Albena Pavlova for her role as Mother Courage, with nominations for the "Askeer" Awards 2025 🌟 in the categories: "Rising Star" – Nikol Georgieva for her role as Catherine, "Scenography" – Nikola Toromanov, "Costume Design" – Svila Velichkova, and "Leading Female Role" – Albena Pavlova for her role as Mother Courage.

📖 translation Dimitar Stoevski
🎬 stage editing and direction Stoyan Radev
🎨 scenography Nikola Toromanov
👗 costumes Svila Velichkova
🎶 music Milen Kukosharov
🤸‍♀️ choreography Teodora Popova
🎭 in the roles
Mother Courage – Albena Pavlova
⚔️ Eilif, Soldier – Asen Mutafchiev
⚔️ Swiss, Soldier – Plamen Velikov
🤍 Catherine – Nikol Georgieva
🎖️ First Sergeant, Second Sergeant, Commander, Officer – Borislav Zakhariev
📜 Recruitment Agent, Colonel, Clerk – Simeon Galabov
🍲 Cook – Dimitar Banenkin
✝️ Priest – Ivan Panev
🎭 Yvette Potie – Stefania Kocheva
🛡️ Armorer, Young Soldier, Son, Eilif's Escort – Martin Zhelankov
🪖 Old Soldier, Man with a Bandage, Peasant, Eilif's Escort – Sotir Melev
🌾 Peasant Woman – Anna Stancheva
✨ With special participation of Kalin Sarmeonov
📝 playwright Mihail Tazev
🎥 assistant directors Emilia Kraicheva, Tsvetelina Simeonova
📸 photographer Petar Petrov

🎭 Even when dealing with serious topics, theater brings us entertainment and pleasure. There are lower and higher forms of entertainment — theater encompasses both. There is lesser and greater pleasure — the latter arises from great dramaturgy, it is richer and has more consequences.

✍️ This is written by Bertolt Brecht, the author of the play “Mother Courage and Her Children,” and he proves that even the most dramatic plot can be recreated in such a way that the audience can enjoy and at the same time actively reflect on the events brought to life under the spotlight on stage.

⚔️ The pains of war, but also its benefits, the tranquility of peace, but also its indulgence, the care for people, but also their inherent selfishness, the elevated human dream, but also the brutalization, the freedom to choose, but also the deliberate renunciation of it — in “Mother Courage and Her Children,” these clashes seek their resolution.

🔥 A gripping theatrical entertainment, following the recipe of Bertolt Brecht.

🎬 Stoyan Radev – director

🎭Within the framework of the festival, the city will once again become a stage for laughter, theater, and live art, featuring some of the most interesting titles on the Bulgarian scene.