site.btaJohn Malkovich to Work with Bulgarian National Theatre

US Actor, Director and Producer John Malkovich will stage a performance at the Bulgarian National Theatre in the next theatre season (2024/2025), the company reported. The renowned thespian will come to Bulgaria in preparation for his future project, Arms and the Man, a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, as agreed upon in a series of talks between Malkovich and National Theatre Director Vasil Vasilev. This is the first of several upcoming joint projects between the director and the theatre.

Preliminary meetings with the National Theatre troupe will take place during the new theatre season (2023/2024), and rehearsals will begin in September 2024.

Bernard Shaw's comedy takes place in Bulgaria, and most of the characters are Bulgarians. The plot is based on the Battle of Slivnica during the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. Arms and the Man was performed for the first time in April 1894 in London.

In February, John Malkovich was a guest on the stage of the National Theatre, together with one of the most popular Lithuanian actresses , Ingeborga Dapkunaite, in in Timofey Kulyabin's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields.

John Malkovich was born in 1953. In 1976, he became one of the founders of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. In 1983 he moved to New York, and a year later he performed on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman. He made his film debut with the film Places in the Heart (1984), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His directorial debut was with the film The Dancer Upstairs (2002). He is an Emmy Award winner, nominated for the prestigious Satellite, BAFTA, Saturn, Oscar and Golden Globe awards.