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THE PLAY:

A famous actress emigrates to America and stops acting. With the same passion she once devoted to playing her characters, she now takes care of her family, silencing any thought she could continue her artistic path. The actress seeks emotional refuge in memories of her past glory.
During those imaginary voyages she meets her closest people - her father, a lover, a friend - who become characters in the theater of her dreams. The line between life and art is blurred in her delirious thoughts. The actress's unwillingness to exist in the present is augmented by the crisis in her marriage that deepens even more as she is about to celebrate her birthday. Then, she takes on another trip to
her past, where she meets the great actress of American cinema, Nazimova. Where will this encounter take her?

"In Kill This Woman Svetlana Atanassova Grabs the Emotions of the Audience. When Svetlana Atanassova is on stage in this play by Mayia Pramatarova, she holds nothing back. Yet, miraculously, she does not appear exposed or vulnerable. It is those of us sitting in our comfortable theater seats that begin to feel defenseless when she shouts out “Kill this woman!” and then whispers “Why?” Read more here >>
November 25, 2009 by Alexandra Arashkina, Public Republic

Svetlana ATANASSOVA

Borin in Sofia Bulgaria completes her masters in acting at (National Academy of Theatre & Film Arts "Krustyo Sarafov”) in Professor Nikolai Lutskanov’s. She was an actress at Plovdiv’s drama theater and then at Sofia’s “Sulza I Smiyah” (Smile and tear). Some of her roles are

Natalya Petrovna, “A Month in the Country” By Turgenev
Lysistrata “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes
Ismene “Antigone” by Jean Anouilh
Claudine “George Dandin” by Moliere
Dorothy “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum
Hermia “A Midsummer Night's Dream” by Shakespeare
Cordelia “King Lear” by Shakespeare
Eney “Seventh Commandment: steal a bit less" by Dario Fo
Barbarian “The Green Bird” by Carlo Gozzi
Bertha “The Father” by Strindberg
Pixrose Wilson “The Wake of Jamey Foster” by Beth Henley
Natasha “The Lower Depths” by Maxim Gorky
Martha “Big as a small apple” by P. Anastasov
Bulgarian Actors Guild Award for Young Bulgarian actress.
Lika “Promise me a sunny past” by P.Anastasov
Eli “IV – V By the Richter scale” By K. Girogiev
Anjeian “The most miraculous wonder”by St. Tcanev
Actors award for children’s play
Maia “Love Boulevards” by St. Tcanev
Yadviga “The Babylon Tower” by M.Minkov
Red riding hood “Baskets” by J. Radichkov
And more.

For her Film Biography visit
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040273/

Mayia PRAMATAROVA

Mayia Pramatarova Ph.D. graduated RATI (GITIS), Moscow. She participated in the theater workshops of the directors Mark Zakharov, Otomar Krejcha and Lev Dodin. Mayia Pramatarova worked as a repertory manager at the Haskovo Theatre Ivan Dimov , The Theater Workshop Sfumato and the Bulgarian National Theater Ivan Vazov. As such she was involved in the productions of the directors Alexander Morfov, Galin Stoev, Ivan Dobtchev, Margarita Mladenova, Robert Sturua, Julia Ognianova and others.
Mayia Pramatarova lectures multimedia educational programs in Bulgaria, Russia, US and France. She staged a multimedia student workshop “Three Sisters. Act One” at the New Bulgarian University, based on the Chekhov's Thee Sisters. Mrs. Pramatarova is the author, translator and editor of many books, including the Art Almanac “Et Cetera”, “Stoian Kambarev – Mirrors” and “Twelfth Night of Robert Sturua”. She is the founder and the editor-in-chief of the website http://post.scriptum.ru/, as well as the US correspondent of the Bulgarian LIK magazine and The Stage journal (Russia). Currently Mayia Pramatarova is an Associate Member of the Davis Center at the Harvard University.