Theatre
Македонска крвава свадба
Not translated into English
Vojdan Černodrinski · 1900
Synopsis
Cveta, a young Orthodox peasant girl from the village of Stradalovo, is abducted in the fields, in the middle of the harvest, by Osman Bey, who has her taken to his harem. She is pressed to renounce her faith and become one of his wives; she refuses. Her brother Duko and Spase, the shepherd she loves, alert the consuls of Bitola and the authorities, and the case goes before the qadi. At the hearing, Cveta begins by saying that she followed the bey of her own free will, then retracts; returned to her family, she sees her wedding being prepared.
Context
The author started from the abduction of a young girl from Valandovo, reported by the newspaper Reformi. Although banned by the government, it was nevertheless first performed in Sofia in November 1900, the author directing it and acting in it, and printed in the same city from December. Written in the speech of Debar mixed with Bulgarian, it was transcribed into literary Macedonian in 1953. The author drew from it the libretto of an opera first performed in Sofia in 1924; the play was performed in the United States as early as 1908 and was brought to the screen in 1967 by Trajče Popov.
Who it is for
In Macedonian, a play in eleven scenes, with no French translation. It is better to know that two states of it exist, that of 1900 and that of 1953.
Prizes and reception
A founding play of Macedonian theatre, it remains one of the major works of that literature and also belongs to the history of Bulgarian theatre.
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