Yambol's Nevena Kokanova Drama Theatre is bringing "Madame Bovary" to Burgas. The show is on Wednesday, 2 December 2026, at 7pm at the Adriana Budevska Drama Theatre.

The latest addition to the Yambol theatre's repertoire is a stage version of Gustave Flaubert's classic novel. The company opened its season with it in October.

Young director Maria Genova adapted the novel and directed the play. Maria Koleva designed the sets and costumes, Hristo Namliev wrote the original music, and Miroliuba Petrova created the choreography and stage movement.

The play centres on the inner world of Emma Bovary, who is constantly afraid that real, full life is happening somewhere else, without her. On stage, dreaming is a refuge, not just a romantic longing. It is an illusory world that slowly becomes a trap and keeps the heroine from accepting reality here and now.

The reading is psychological and strongly modern. Its themes are the clash between the dreamed-of ideal and reality, the price of illusions, and the inability to accept the present.

Eight actors from the Yambol company play Emma Bovary and the other main roles: Yana Bobeva, Georgi Ruzhichka, Eli Kiril Koleva, Viliyan Geshev, Yordan Kumanov, Nikolay Ganchev, Tsvetelina Kuneva and Dimitar Dimitrov. The show runs for 100 minutes.

Tickets are on sale at the box office of the Burgas theatre and on the ENTASE online network.

Since its premiere in Yambol, the play has been staged in several cities, including Sofia, Gabrovo, Lovech and Targovishte. The organisers say it has drawn strong interest from audiences and critics, including young people reached through the theatre's joint education projects with NATFA, the national theatre and film academy.

The Burgas show is part of the play's autumn and winter tour, which runs through the autumn and winter.