Although her partner Alister Lownie is a Scot, she is worried about what will happen after Brexit and is not sure she can trust Westminster’s reassurances that all will be fine.

“To be honest with you I would never have thought that within my lifetime I would be born on the wrong side, then move and find myself on the wrong side again,” she told The National. “We are getting all these new lines being drawn on the map.”

It is these new lines that have prompted Radeva and Lownie to revive a solo performance called Fallen Fruit which was first performed 10 years ago to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Fallen Fruit is trying to provoke people into thinking about migration and about having the opportunity to have a dialogue. It is better to sit at the table and have a voice than not have a voice at all,” she said. “Next year is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and is also the same year as Britain leaving the European project, so the show is quite topical in terms of borders and how you deal with division and separation.”

AND THE BULGARIAN LINK?

THE play focuses on Radeva’s experience of life under communism and its end in 1989 as well as her experience of living as a 36-year-old in Britain. The four different narratives also include the story of a gay couple and the changes that happen to them and an interactive game show which gives the audience a choice and a chance to vote.

“It is a playful moment of giving the audience a voice and gently questioning the idea of what you do if you have a choice,” she explained.

Radeva was just seven years old when the Berlin Wall fell but has a clear memory of how it affected her country.

“When this kind of event happens when you are young they shape how you see the world,” she said. “I am a child of the fall of communism and the failure of post-communism.

“When ’89 came and communism was brought down I remember complete and utter jubilation. I knew we had managed to get rid of the thing we did not want.

“But what happened immediately after was proper chaos because there was no plan for what happens when you bring down a regime as firm as the communism we experienced.”

WHAT DID HAPPEN?

“WE went from abundance to empty shelves,” said Radeva. “We had some food because I was a child and when my mother queued she took me with her and people pushed her to the front of the queue. But it was very tough and it was like we had gone backwards. The country came to a complete standstill. No-one was working, the money ran out and there was literally no food.

“The first two years were very difficult then the Americans moved in because of our strategic position. The other side of the Black Sea is Russia and we have Turkey and Greece on the south side.

“We also had some UN aid in the form of food. I remember eating a lot of canned beetroot but I would not recommend it.”

While the idea of democracy has taken root somewhat, Radeva says there is still suffering.

“In ’89 the people that had money left. We used to have a population of eight million but now it is just six million and the country is the size of the UK.

“And it is only 30 years since the regime fell so it is not that long ago. The kids of the communist party leaders are now running the country so we have the same issue of corruption. As a nation we have not flushed out old habits although I don’t want to paint a really black picture as it is not all doom and gloom.”

WHEN DID SHE COME HERE?

RADEVA has been living in the UK since she was 16, when she won a scholarship for the City of Bath College to study art and design.

From there she studied for a degree in London in set and costume design and through that fell into performing and writing and began to establish a voice as a theatre maker.

She met Lownie in 2009 when she started to move from experimental work into more traditonal theatre.

“He was classically trained at Rada and was interested in becoming more experimental, so we kind of met in the middle,” said Radeva.

The pair set up their own company, Two Destination Language, to make contemporary performances that explore themes of identity, belonging and what happens when cultures collide.

Fallen Fruit was the company’s first production and Radeva believes it is even more relevant now than it was then.

“We are bringing it back because it feels a lot stronger now,” she said. “At the moment there are questions of nationhood, borders, delineation between countries and what makes us different from one another.”

HOW IS IT AFFECTING HER?

RADEVA says she has remained a Bulgarian citizen by choice because it is part of her identity but is concerned about what will happen to European migrants in the UK after Brexit.

“They are saying that everything will be fine but we do wonder how fine,” she said. “After the Brexit vote when I spoke to people – not so much in Scotland but in England – they would hear my accent and ask where I was from in a threatening tone.

“At first I felt it was none of their business but then if you don’t engage you are disallowing yourself a chance to change their view. I also think theatre is about providing debate, about making you think. We are not saying you need to agree but we are saying ‘lets have that conversation.’”

Fallen Fruit by Two Destination Language is at Tech Cube 0, Summerhall, for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from August 1-26. Check summerhall.co.uk for dates and tickets