Bug Company; Samuel Buggeln, director, Angela Rodel, translator

August 20-26, 2012

3B Development Series

Tickets 

In Residence:August 20-26, 2012

It’s almost one o’clock in the city’s main square, and Man One and Man Two are worried about returning to their offices for work. They worry about this every lunch hour in fact, and they never eat. They worry about a lot of other things too: Who’s watch brand is more prestigious? Is it possible to eat street food without looking like a hick? Where did all the people go? Also, somebody is watching them: in fact, he watches them every lunchtime. So that, at least, is reassuring–

Hilarious and thought-provoking, The Eyes of Others is the Shumen New Drama award-winning play by the young Bulgarian poet and novelist Ivan Dimitrov. Presented in March as a reading at the Lark Play Development Center’s hotINK festival, The Eyes of Others will be the first Bulgarian play to be produced in the US. Thanks to a generous grant from CEC/ArtsLink, the playwright as well as the translator, Angela Rodel, will join the production team in rehearsal.

Performances:
Sep 06-29, 2012 Limited Engagement
At New Ohio Theater: 154 Christopher st.
$12-$18 Tickets
– Running time 1 h 30 min

Ivan Dimitrov was born in 1983 and graduated with a degree in Bulgarian Philology. His collection of short stories was nominated for the debut book prize of the Ars Publishing House and his play “Separation at First Sight” was one of five nominees for the Slavka Slavova chamber play competition in 2010. He is the author of Local Foreigners, a book of short stories, and the novel Life as a Missing Spoon. Ivan was one of the top five writers or poetry in the Sofia Poetics Festival in 2010 and 2011. In 2011 his play “The Eyes of Others” won the New Drama Contest in Shumen, and was selected from among hundreds of international plays to be read at the hotINK festival at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City. In fall of 2012, it will be produced at the New Ohio Theatre in NYC.

Samuel Buggel is the founder of Bug Company and a long-time Artistic Associate with the New Ohio Theatre and its Obie-winning predecessor Soho Think Tank. His work at the Ohio includes Cressida Among the Greeks, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Sound Design Award, as well as The Flight of Icarus, The Last Days of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Blue Eyes Black Hair, the Off-Broadway Premiere of Conor McPherson’s Rum & Vodka, and Hater, his own translation of Moliere’s Le Misanthrope. His other new work developed and directed in New York includes Bedbugs!!!, an 80’s hair metal sci-fi musical that was the recipient of 5 jury awards from the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and Go-Go Kitty, GO!, which played at the Lucille Lortel Theatre as part of FringeNYC and received the Best Play FringeFirst citation.

Angela Rodel is a literary translator living and working in Bulgaria. She holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. in linguistics from UCLA. She received a 2010 PEN Translation Fund Grant for Georgi Tenev’s Holy Light. Her translation of Milen Ruskov’s novel Thrown into Nature was published by Open Letter Books in 2011.

Bug Company is a fledgling producing organization devoted to exploring translation in performance as both a practice and an idea. Bug Co’s first theatrical venture was Hater, director Samuel Buggeln’s faithful yet unconventional translation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope. Hater was produced at the Ohio Theatre in the summer of 2010, featuring Emmy nominee Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie, Soho Rep’s Uncle Vanya), Zoë Winters (4000 Miles), and Noah Weisberg (B’way: Elf, Enron, South Pacific). The NY Times said of the “gleeful” Hater that it “wields a rapier… [and] nicely twists the blade.” Hater, along with Buggeln’s introduction, is slated to be published in The Mercurian, an academic journal of theatrical translation.