On Victory Day, the Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan performed a play about a war heroFrom 2 to 9 May, the theatre took part in the “Big Tour” program in Kaluga and Istra.

The Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan has been an active participant in the All-Russian Touring and Concert Plan for several years in a row. For the first time the company visited Kaluga and Istra, where it presented three theatre productions. Young Russian theatre-goers had an opportunity to watch two fairy tale shows: the play Mischief-maker based on the story of the People’s Poet of Uzbekistan Gafur Gulyam, in which techniques typical of the street theatre of maskharaboz  (Uzbek comic actors similar to buffoons in ancient Russia) are used; and Gift to the Beloved Princess based on the Uzbek folk tale Orzijan and Kambarjan. The latter belongs to the so-called “paradoxical” or “smart” fairy tales.

The adult audience was presented with the premiere of this season Kazbek: the Fate of a Hero. The authors of the play, K. Baltayev (Uzbekistan) and D. Filippovich (Belarus), took as a basis the biography of the Hero of the Soviet Union Mamadali Topvaldyev, who was born in Uzbekistan and participated in the partisan movement on the territory of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. It is very symbolic that the performance in Istra, the first town that Soviet troops retook during the general counter-attack near Moscow, took place on Victory Day.

The Chief director of the Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan, Anvar Kartaev, emphasized: “The fact that we are performing here exactly on 9 May is very remarkable and very touching for us.”

The shows took place within the framework of the foreign part of the “Big Tour” program on the stages of the Innovative Cultural Center (Kaluga) and the Istra Drama Theater.

The “Big Tour” program is implemented by the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture ROSCONCERT in accordance with the All-Russian Tour and Concert Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. General information partner – TASS.