Figure 0
The introductory title card to Улицата/The Street – an example of the experimental visual aesthetic present in the show (The Street, BNT 1995).
Figure 1
A skit in which Maya Novoselska parodies expectations of femininity by describing her “appearance” to a male caller. She reflexively addresses the camera multiple times, and implicates the viewer in this process of imagining and subverting ideas of “womanhood”. (The Street, BNT 1995).
Figure 2
One (of many) characters portrayed by Maya Novoselska on The Street, featuring a musical performance (The Street, BNT 1994).
Figure 3
“Half Stories” – a pun referring to the feeling of “halfway-ness” following the transition (The Street, BNT 1995).
Figure 4
A skit titled “Crushed by Life People” – the foot contains the Bulgarian word for “life” (The Street, BNT 1995).
Figure 5
А sketch parodying the experience of watching primetime soaps (The Street, BNT 1995).
Figure 6
A re-enactment of an imagined telenovela with a subtitle/intertitle “Operas” (The Street, BNT 1995).
Figure 7
Surreal/Absurd – Lafazanov re-enacts a noir character speaking gibberish English, with subtitles first spelling out the imagined words in Bulgarian, then revealing “He doesn’t speak English” (The Street, BNT 1995).