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Elin Rahnev's TEST to Play 2023 FRIGID Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks

This play will surprise you with its satirical sense of humor and it will keep you on the edge of your seat with tears and laughter. 

Elin Rahnev's TEST to Play 2023 FRIGID Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks TEST, written & directed by Elin Rahnev and featuring Vitan Pravtchev and Maria N. Angelova, will be performed at the FRIGID Fringe Festival on Feb 18 - 2pm, Feb 20 - 9:50pm, Feb 25 - 7pm, March 1 - 8:10pm,  and March 3 - 11:30pm at UNDER St Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009) . Click here to purchase tickets (in-person or live streaming): https://www.frigid.nyc/event/6897:333/

TEST is a play that won the highest award for dramaturgy (Askeer) in Bulgaria. The play TEST, by the prominent Bulgarian playwright and poet Elin Rahnev, is a brilliant satirical metaphor about the struggle of keeping one's identity while being forced to fit into society’s parameters in order to survive in this world. What and who is damaged when trying to follow society’s norms? In today’s dynamic and unpredictably changing world, we often face pressuring challenges on so many levels. How do you deal with them? Have you ever felt pressured to conform, comply, and/or lose your identity? Do you easily adapt to whatever comes?

Without giving too much away, The Company is the ubiquitous power in the society/world of this play, where Anton attends his first job interview to join the infamous corporate giant. His expectations completely fall short of what The Company is and his worldview is turned upside down. Does Anton have the willpower to escape? Does he want to escape at all, or is The Company’s grasp on him too strong? This play will surprise you with its satirical sense of humor and it will keep you on the edge of your seat with tears and laughter. Presented by two very talented professional actors, it is fun to watch, and also philosophical enough to challenge your views about life. Come and see how it all unfolds.

Elin Rahnev - Playwright, Dramaturge, Director

Elin Rahnev is a prominent Bulgarian multiple award-winning playwright, poet, and director. He has worked as a publisher and editor-in-chief of literature and poetry magazines,  and also as a columnist in a number of newspapers and magazines in Bulgaria. He is a founder and screenwriter of a number of television shows. He is well known in Bulgaria for his emotionally-rich philosophical poetry collections loved by many generations: "I exist", "Waving the crocus", "October", "Cinnamon", and “Zelda”. He is the author of the plays "Beans", "Flaubert", "The high autumn of your body", "The Cuckoo", "Fans", "Route" and "TEST". His plays have been translated and played with huge success on European stages. Elin Rahnev has two "Icarus" awards for dramaturgy - for "Beans" (1999) and for "Fans" (2003). In 2011, he also won the Askeer award for dramaturgy for the play "TEST". His plays and poems have been translated into over 20 languages.

FRIGID Fringe Festival is an open and unjuried theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of the Indie Theater Community, 100% of box office proceeds go directly to the artists whose work is being presented. FRIGID is here to chill out the New York independent theatre scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be! www.frigid.nyc

 



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