Your country, sir. Your people. Your responsibility.
It rather does fall to you to make things right.
Clean up your father's mess.

Winner of the 2023 Off West End 'Best Ensemble' Award
Runner Up for the 2023 BBC Writersroom Popcorn Award for Best New Writing
Winner of the 2020 VAULT Festival Origins Award

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 lives.

Award-winning Out Of The Forest Theatre's irreverent comedy - featuring live music inspired by Bulgarian and Jewish folk tunes - tells the incredible true story that the world forgot.

This is a unique story in 20th century European history. Prepare to be enthralled as The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria weaves a tale that delves deep into history, leaving you both informed and spellbound.

This edition was published to coincide with the initial run at New York City's Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theatre in May 2024, before the show toured the UK in June 2024.

Sasha Wilson is an LAMDA-trained actor, musician and writer. She founded Out Of The Forest Theatre in 2017 and has been creating historically driven feminist work that sometimes ventures in to the macabre. She has won numerous awards including an Offie in 2019 for Best Ensemble in Bury The Hatchet and the Broadway World Best Actress Award in 2018 for her performance as Juliet in Southwest Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet. She teaches workshop series in taking a historical idea from inspiration to draft both online through Parts of the Main and in person at Rose Bruford.

Joseph Cullen is a freelance writer-performer and producer based in Somerset. Joseph sits on the board of Theatre Orchard based in Weston-super-Mare. Joseph won Best Actor for short film 'Bath' at the Revolution Film Festival in America. Joseph has worked regularly with companies including Myriad & Co., Teatro Vivo and Les Enfants Terribles. As well as writing for Out of The Forest Theatre, Joseph has written two other plays; Gentle Tim and The Lock In, both of which have won Festival Spirit Awards at VAULT Festival in London. Joseph's one-man comedy show You Having Olaf? won him a Best Newcomer Award at VAULT Festival 2017.