Sasho Dimoski

Alma Mahler

Theatre & Music Production Centre – Varna, State Drama Theatre Stoyan Bachvarov, Bulgaria

Theatre & Music Production Centre – Varna, State Drama Theatre Stoyan Bachvarov • Bulgaria

A performance about the extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman. Alma Schindler-Mahler-Gropius-Werfel — daughter of a painter and lover of some of the most famous and gifted men of her time. Known as “the Muse of Vienna,” she was the inspiration for composer Gustav Mahler, painter Gustav Klimt, architect Walter Gropius, artist Oskar Kokoschka, and poet Franz Werfel. Directed by Dejan Projkovski and written by Sasho Dimoski, the production presents fragments from Alma’s life, told in retrospective. A woman-muse faces her own reckoning: to inspire or to create; to remain a faithful shadow or to shine with her own light; to stand beside the great creators while paying the price of love with her own talent. The story of Alma Mahler — the great widow of an era.

Cast

Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, the great widow of an era Petya Angelova

Max Burckhardt, her lover, director of the Burgtheater Nikolay Kenarov

Three actresses from the theatre Siyana Nacheva, Milvana Hristova, Viktoria Ivanova

Teresa, her best friend Veselina Mihalkova

Gustav Klimt, her lover Konstantin Sokolov

Adela, her acquaintance / rival Daniela Viktorova

Three models, in Klimt’s studio Siyana Nacheva, Milvana Hristova, Viktoria Ivanova

Alexander Zemlinsky, her teacher and lover Plamen Dimitrov

Gustav Mahler, her teacher and first husband Stoyan Radev

Nanny, in the Mahler household Gergana Arnaudova

Three opera singers Siyana Nacheva, Milvana Hristova, Viktoria Ivanova