Bashkir Drama Theater staged plastic art performance for the first time

On December 18 and 19, the Mazhit Gafuri Bashkir Academic Drama Theater will host a plastic art performance premiere based on Nikolai Krasheninnikov's novel "Amelya".

The author of the staging is Azalia Balgazina, the art director of the production is Airat Abushakhmanov, and the director for plastic arts is Alina Mustaeva.

The stage designer, costume designer Ekaterina Malinina and composer, musician Oleg Gudachev were invited from St. Petersburg for the art and musical design.

The performance, which tells the story through plastic art, dance, and music, also includes speech in three languages: Bashkir, Russian, French. The author of the translation into the Bashkir language is Dinara Kayumova.

Gulnara Kazakbayeva plays the lead part of Amelya. Cast: Ural Aminov, Gulnara Amirova, Almas Amirov, Rinat Baimurzin, Alsu Bakhtiyeva, Azat Valitov, Alsu Galina, Lilia Galina, Ilgiz Gilmanova, Gulmira Ismagilova, Artur Kabirov, Yunir Kulanbaev, Fatima Rafikovitov, Fatima Rafikovitov, Fatima Rafikitov , Gulnaz Khaisarova, Ruslan Khaisarov, Zilyara Yultaeva.

Musicians of the theater orchestra directed by Ural Idelbaev accompany the play.

Nikolai Krasheninnikov (1878-1941) - Russian writer who wrote with love about Bashkiria and the Bashkir people. The novel "Amelya" tells about the fate of a Bashkir orphan girl brought up by a widowed childless professor in a Russian noble environment. However, Amelya is constantly thinking about the "call of the steppes", which becomes a kind of symbol of her homeland, a beacon reminiscent of her lost roots.