NIKOLETA ALEKSIEVA

Stage design and costumes for the play 'The boy in the last row' - Juan Mayorga (2013)
In Drama Theatre - 'Adreana Budevska' 
Director - Desislava Shpatova

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'‘The boy in the last row’ is a play about masters and disciples; about parents and children; about people who have seen too much and people who learn to look. It is a play about the pleasure of interfering in the life of others and about the risk of mistaking life with literature. It is a play about those who choose to sit in the back of the class: the place from where everything else can be seen.' Juan Mayorga 
 
The main storyline is the relationship between а high school literature teacher (Germain) and а schoolboy (Claude). Germain, as a failed writer and a desperate teacher, hopes he has in front of him a future writer, someone who could justify by his later works that his carrier as a teacher won’t have been unavailing. He thus starts lending books to Claude, to develop his literary tastes. Claudio, in turn, wrote essays (for his classmate Rapha and his family) and gives it to Germain.The viewer peeps into Rapha’s house, through Claude’s essays, along with Germain and Jeanne (the Germain’s wife). 
The scenes aren’t cut off on the contrary, they overflow, so the viewer at one point does not understand what is the brainchild of Claudio and his essays and what actually happened.
It all starts with the Claude’s story for the Rapha’s house. Little by little with each successive essay Claudio complements the images of Rapha, his family and home.
At first on the stage is a big library, as a background of the school scenes, which later on forms the home of Rapha. With the course of the play the actors use the library to create images and write.