Diana Dobreva
Theatre Director and Actress

"Thanks to Sasho Sekulov and Diana Dobreva for being able to translate "The Blind Gardener" into the language of theatre!

Succeeding through the complexity is a real challenge.

The staff of the Plovdiv Theater is like a match stick that lights a fire in our souls.

Debelyanov's soul did not leave at 10:34 am on that bloody and terrible day.

He is among us.

Thanks to you."

Professor Valeri Stefanov

"An angelic spectacle carrying on its wings an unbearable amount of poetry, imagery and tons of feelings (...) Words can't describe what numbness of the hall at the end of the play can - a few hundred people needed a little time to get to speak again."

Ilia Dimitrov, mediacafe.bg

"The whole team of Debelyanov and the Angels should be proud, because they achieveed the highest form of theatre art, something we can see very rarely."

Stefka Georgieva, kapana.bg

"In one of his poems the poet Ivan Dinkov writes:

After the death of Dimcho Debelyanov
the angels no longer have a choir.

The Angels have a choir again, their soloist - the eternal figure of Dimcho Debelyanov, did for us his touching, uncompromising, exquisite, immortal confession on the stage of the Drama Theater in Plovdiv.

Shocking, deeply dialogical and devoid of vanity, the play "Debelyanov and the Angels" shone in the sky of the masterpieces of theatrical art."

Victoria Petrova, trafficnews.bg

"Debelyanov and the Angels is a performance that shakes you, inspires you, cleanses you and leaves you speechless for along, long time."

Petia Terziiska, dcnews.bg

"You know I talk a lot. I am rarely speechless… And now… I have said so many things and I have not been able to say anything about what I experienced… And I will try again - "Debelyanov and the Angels" is the most monumental theatrical work I have had the good fortune to experience! "Debelyanov and the Angels" is a perfect symbiosis between picture, music, text, meaning and feelings. Not being pretentious, beautiful and tender, touching and shocking, childishly sincere, tragic, life-affirming, lyrical, deep and warm, "Debelyanov and the Angels" hugged and rocked me and sang to me… And still swings me and sings to me. I've been in the gym for two hours, and I'm still where happiness is so great that it seems like sadness or sadness is so great that it somehow even seems like happiness… What more can I say? Thanks, Diana, Petya, Mira! Thanks guys and girls on, behind, over and around the stage! Oh yeah! Thanks also to Alexander Sekulov! THANKS!!!"

Gergana Zmiicharova, Actress

"Two days ago I watched the production of the Plovdiv theater Debelyanov and the Angels. I still have the feeling that I was part of the fifth company, that I shot at the Greek peasant, that Elena flew like an angel across the stage and died in my arms, I took part in the attacks and I looked for canned food in the French trenches…

Great and beautiful performance, they all did amazing job - all the actors, the script writer Alexander Sekulov, the wonderful director Diana Dobreva, and the stage design of Mira Karalanova."

Atanas Hranov, artist

"Tonight my faith that the Bulgarian theater art is alive has returned! After heaps of meaningless productions, pathetic sketches, attempts with pretensions, which made me not want to step on the threshold of the theater, I finally watched a show with a heart and soul, and left with a sense of satisfaction. My expectations were really high, having this particular cast and the huge production, and I got even much more than I expected. A HUGE THANK YOU to these extremely talented actors who took part in the premiere performance of "DEBELYANOV AND THE ANGELS"! THANKS to Alexandar Sekulov, Diana Dobreva, Mira Kalanova, Petya Dimanova - the people who created this unique show! I personally did not stop crying. So beautiful, so meaningful, so deep! The half-hour applause was not enough for what you did! Take a bow!"

Svetla Gerjhikova, teacher

"Tenderness, tenderness, tenderness in every whispered line. As if a real angel is sitting next to you in the hall and gently, gently, gently caresses you as you experience the colorful bouquet of emotions from that show.
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We have a lot to learn from our history - about love, about war, about faith and struggle, about fidelity and poetry, about humanity and duty, about the silent screams of the soul… "Debelyanov and the angels" takes us (at least) 200 meters forward and not a step back…"

Lilyana Tashkova, from the audience

"(...) Diana Dobreva, Sasho Sekulov and the rest of the team have created real magic!"

Razlitsa Dimitrova, from the audience

"Debelyanov and the Angels is the performance of my lifetime. It's still on my mind and I never want it to leave. Petya, Diana, Alexander, Mira, thank you for everything you have created, it is a miracle, a celebration of the senses, excitement and magic. Nencho, you are indescribably amazing. The troupe of Plovdiv theatre is an example in every possible meaning. It's already seems to me that it was a dream, but it really happened to me yesterday."

Vittoria Nikolova, from the audience