Three Colours of the Soul

By Tsveti Potchekanska

Three Colours Of The Soul, a play by the Bulgarian author Tsveti Potchekanska, inspired by the lives and works of three Russian poets – Elena Guro, Anna Achmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, captures the three women in significant moments in their lives and highlights the intensity of the relationship between poetry and the existential condition.
In Three Colours of The Soul, Tsveti Potchekanska recounts the three great protagonists of 20th century Russian culture, united by a paradoxical and contradictory condition of privilege, through being poets, and oppression and persecution by the political powers, through being poets! Each is presented in a story of intense moments which follow one after the other in the minimalist form of short drama, creating a single, unique narrative.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tsveti Potchekanska
• Release date: Jul 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005151874

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THREE COLOURS OF THE SOUL

three short dramas

Tsveti Potchekanska

translation by

Peter Hendersons

La Società della Civetta

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INTRODUCTION

Tsveti Potchekanska is a Bulgarian musician and theatre writer and director. In Three Colours of The Soul, she recounts three great protagonists of 20th century Russian culture, united by a paradoxical and contradictory condition of privilege, through being poets, and oppression and persecution by the political powers, through being poets! Each is presented in a story of intense moments which follow one after the other in the minimalist form of short drama, creating a single, unique narrative.

Directly from the poetry of each protagonist, the Bulgarian writer manages to distil their thoughts, skilfully transforming them into words – logos – and each poet magically expresses herself... The three short dramas appear as the fruit of analytical construction, developed in a constant balance between a clear ability for precision bordering on severe succinctness and the poetry