Antigone And The People
By Sophocles
Rhodope Drama Theatre Nikolay Haytov, Smolyan, 2018
Translated by Kiril Merdzhanski
Stage version and direction: Delyan Iliev
Scenography and costumes: Anna Nartsis Shopova
Music: Mira Iskarova
Actors: Bozhana Manovska, Samuela-Ivana Tserovska, Atanas Naydenov, Boris Hadzhiyski, Asen Levov
Photo: Mihail Hubchev
Twelfth Night…or What You Will
By William Shakespeare
Rhodope Drama Theatre Nikolay Haytov, Smolyan, 2019
Translated by Valeri Petrov
Direction: Delyan Iliev
Scenography: Svetoslav Kokalov
Costumes: Anna Nartsis Shopova
Music and on stage performance: Mira Iskarova
Actors: Bozhana Manovska, Rada Velinova, Jovanna Galiardi/Gergana Libova,
Atanas Naydenov, Dimitar Martinov, Nikola Oreshkov, Dimitar Dimitrov,
Boris Hadzhiyski, Vassil Chitanov
Photo: Mihail Hubchev
Anna Shopova
Anna Shopova graduated in MA Scenography at the National Academy of Art in Sofia in 2019. Since February 2021 she has been a PhD student supervised by Professor Svetoslav Kokalov.
Her work as a scenographer and a costume designer includes performances in the area of dramatic theater at the Rhodope Dramal Theater Nikolay Haytov in Smolyan and at the National Academy for Theater and Film Arts in Sofia. Her independent projects are based on a mix of paintings, photos, collages, texts, videos, and sound. All of them are presented outside the frame of art galleries. Her main source of inspiration is life, urban space; conscious observation of the surroundings and the discovery of objects for research; the conflict between the ‘normal’; the borderline, and the exaggerated. She is interested in the theater and its expressive power on-stage as well as site-specific.
She participated in several group exhibitions, the last of which was at the international festival SAW5 (Sofia Art Week 2022). In 2022 she was awarded a prize for Costume Design at the National Festival for small theater forms in Vratza for the performance Titanic Orchestra based on the play by Hristo Boychev, dramaturgy and direction Delyan Iliev, Rhodope Drama Theater Nikolay Haytov, Smolyan in 2021.