Anne O. and Roy N. Freed collection of Bulgarian posters
Overview
Contains posters advertising Bulgarian theatrical and film productions.
Dates
- Creation: 1967-1995
Language of Materials
Bulgarian
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
3.36 linear feet (84 oversize folders)Contains posters advertising Bulgarian theater and film productions. Series I includes theater posters for productions at Naroden Theatre “Ivan Vazov,” Central Puppet Theatre, New Dramatic Theatre “Tears and Laughter,” Derzhavin Musical Theatre, Mladezhki Theatre, Maluk Gradski Theatre, Theatre Sofia, Sofiiska Opera, Dramatic Theatre Burgas, Theatre Movement, Chamber Theatre, Mladost Sports Arena, Satiric Theatre “Aleko Konstantinov,” Theatre Bulgarian Army, Dramatic Theatre Izdirva “Meki Nozhut,” and others. Productions include those by David Mamet, Anthony Burgess, Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, William Shakespeare, Aldo de Benedetti, Puccini, Edward Albee, Moliere, Eva Perzhinova, Nikos Kazandzakis, Arthu Shnitsler, Sophocles, Ravel, Julio Scarnacci, Henrik Ibsen, Stefan Gechev, and Ray Cooney, among others. Most of the productions are from the 1990s.
Series II contains posters for Bulgarian films, including: Bonne Chance, Inspector, Boris I, Constantine the Philosopher, Day of the Rulers, Divorces, Divorces, The Grand Piano, Last Wishes, Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles, There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather, A Thousand Cranes, A Woman of Thirty-Three, Yo-Ho-Ho, and several others. These productions date from 1967 to the mid-1980s. Directors include Petar Donev, B. Sharaliev, G. Stoyanov, V. Ikonomov, B. Punchev, M. Nikolov, R. Petkov, P. Vasilev, D. Andonov, Z. Zhandov, R. Surjiski, M. Andonov, H. Hristov, and Z. Heskia.
Biographical / Historical
Anne O. Freed (1917-2012) was a clinical social worker, a graduate of Connecticut College and the Smith College School for Social Work in 1941. She served as a social worker for multiple decades and was a professor of clinical social work at Boston University, Boston College, and Smith College. Anne Freed was married to Roy O. Freed (1917-), and they wrote a memoir Fulbrighters in Retirement: Networking with Bulgarians Keeps Us Engaged, remembering their shared experience as Fulbright Fellows at Sofia University in Bulgaria at the age of 72 in 1989. The Freeds visited Bulgaria annually from 1989-2002. They were initially brought to Bulgaria to visit a friend of Anne’s from a summer school program in 1937. They became involved in Bulgarian academia, and Anne helped to establish the School of Clinical Social Work at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1992, modeled after the Smith College School for Social Work. Anne and Roy Freed were named Cavaliers of the Madara Horseman, First Degree, a high civilian honor, by then-President Stoyanov in 1995.
Arrangement
Arranged in two series: I. Theater posters, 1981-1995, and II. Film posters, 1967-1989.
Physical Location
ppf (P1.C3.07.08-P1.C3.07.11 [Folders 1-84])
Immediate Source of Acquisition
91-92.188.07.01-60, 94-95.140.03.1-24. Gifts of Anne O. and Roy N. Freed, 1991-1995.
Processing Information
Processed by Betts Coup, 2019.
- Title
- Freed, Anne O. Anne O. and Roy N. Freed collection of Bulgarian posters, 1967-1995 (MS Thr 1900): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2019 February 1
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou03094
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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