Konstantin Iliev

The Plays

Music from Shatrovets (1973)

The Awards

In 2012 Konstantin Iliev is the recipient of the National "Hristo G. Danov" Overall Award for Contribution to Bulgarian Literary Culture;

In 2005 his book The Defeat won the Elias Canetti Literary Prize and in 2003 the Helicon Prize for New Bulgarian Fiction;

In 1996 the University of Vienna granted him the international Herder Prizefor overall achievement.

THE MOUSY KING

a puppet play for adults

I Am a Responsible Citizen and I Know My Rights

Fundamental rights of freedom of expression are infringed.

The words of the boyar Smilets show the means which a powerful ruler uses to reign and to

keep people under subjection:

"Isn’t there anyone to cut off his tongue? Anybody to take out his eyes ? How dare this smelly fisherman say that there is no fish in the river! It cannot be true! No fish in the king’s river!"

According to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, everyone has the right to respect for physical and

mental integrity, and the right to life.

According to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or

punishment.

Everyone has the right of freedom of thought and the right to share their

thoughts with others.

One of the most precious human rights and freedom is the protection of

personal data and privacy.

The message of the play „The Mousy King " is clear in the grotesque depiction of what happens in asociety that does not respect and protect human

rights. Violence is common when people put up withtheir lot and give up defending their rights.

The Twentieth UNIMA Congress and World Festival of Puppet Art in Chengdu, China, May-June 2012. A part of the puppet performers and crew of "The Mousy King", a "Konstantin Velichkov" Theater production, after receiving the Award

for Excellent Plastic Arts and The Award For Excellent Design.

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