''Mammoth'' ( bg, Мамут) is a 1990 satirical play by Bulgarian playwright
Stanislav Stratiev
Stanislav Stratiev (Bulgarian: Станислав Стратиев) (9 September 1941 – 20 September 2000) was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author.
Biography
He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in literatu ...
. It was written in 1989,
but premiered at the
Satirical Theatre
The Aleko Konstantinov State Satirical Theatre ( bg, Държавен сатиричен театър „Алеко Константинов“, ''Darzhaven satirichen teatar „Aleko Konstantinov“''), commonly known as the Satirical Theatre, is ...
of
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
on October 12, 1990.
Plot
The play centres around the Associate Professor of Linguistics Ivan Antonov, his wife Martha—a professor of composition at the conservatory, and their son Bozhidar. Suddenly, in the middle of the night on the wall appears the shadow of the mammoth, which is said to appear wherever an unsolved crime is committed. Gradually the shadow of the mammoth appears throughout the block, neighborhood, and finally across the city.
References
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1990 plays
Bulgarian plays
Satirical plays