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"Witness for the Prosecution" Premiere to Open Black Sea Theatre Festival in Varna

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The second International Black Sea Theatre Festival will open in Varna on Wednesday with the premiere of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution. The festival, which opens on September 23, is organized by the Stoyan Bachvarov Drama Theatre with funding from Varna Municipality through its Culture Fund and from the Ministry of Culture. Director Stoyan Radev said the new perspective he brings to Witness for the Prosecution is that people today value the truth that serves their own point of view. Christie's stories are whodunits, and audiences expect a resolution, Radev said. A century later, however, the question of who committed the crime had become less important because everyone decided for themselves. He contrasted today's world of post-truth with the past. When one of the famous detectives revealed the culprit in a play, the whole audience felt satisfied because justice had prevailed. Today, justice never prevails, he argued, because countless voices insist: "Whatever the evide