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6 days ago · Joseph Cullen (center) in The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria. Photo: Carol Rosegg. A sardonic history lesson in 90 whirlwind minutes, The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria tells the misremembered story of a Balkan monarch who died while defying Hitler over the deportation of his Jewish citizens in 1943.
5 days ago · (New York Jewish Week) — King Boris III reigned over Bulgaria from his father’s abdication in 1918 — after Bulgaria’s defeat in World War I — until his mysterious death at 49 in 1943.
May 2, 2024 · The year is 1943, and Bulgaria has just told Hitler where to stick it. Europe’s major powers are at war, and King Boris III must choose a side or be swept away. A raucous and poignant tale in which a bunch of underdogs use every trick in the book to outwit the Nazis and save nearly 50,000 Jewish ...
6 days ago · David Leopold, Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman, and, Clare Fraenkel star in Out of the Forest Theatre’s The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria, directed ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Boris III (born Jan. 30, 1894, Sofia, Bulg.—died Aug. 28, 1943, Sofia) was the king of Bulgaria from 1918 to 1943, who, during the last five years of his reign, headed a thinly veiled royal dictatorship. The son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma, Boris, despite his Roman Catholic parentage, was brought up in the ...
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4 days ago · (New York Jewish Week) — King Boris III reigned over Bulgaria from his father’s abdication in 1918 — after Bulgaria’s defeat in World War I — until his mysterious death at 49 in 1943. A ...
5 days ago · The story of Boris III might have remained a historical footnote but for Sasha Wilson, the cowriter of the piece (with Joseph Cullen), whose grandparents escaped Bulgaria during World War II. It turns out that the history of Bulgaria in the 20th century is far more complicated than the Harmony passage suggests.
