a comedy by two plays of P. Mérimée 

Director - Honored Artist of Republic of Uzbekistan
Nabi ABDURAKHMANOV

Stage designer - Dmitriy MOKHOV

Художник восстановления и художник по костюмам –
Vassa VASILYEVA

Composer - Ilya MELAMED

Ballet master - Anna TRENINA

Premiere was held in 12th of December1992

Duration of performance 2 hours 30 min.

Nobody can joke with inquisition – alchemists, pythons and fortunetellers of gloomy muddle ages have understood it well, majority of them, alas, posthumously.
But if inquisition catches a pretty woman, tragedy turns as slapstick.
And then monks, whose zealous sanctity has risen on campfire not one comparatively innocent witch, with the same passion are ready to give - and successfully do this! – Life for devil incarnate - for woman.

So, the verdict, in the name of play, anticipates the most persisting magical sight of carnival, which essence is concluded in change the roles and functions of personages.
The Campfire, in which must burn the woman-devil, burns the monks themselves because it is a fire of passion, as a whole personifying thirst of life.

It is too complicated to tell, how many acts have to consist the play, taken on itself boldness to present to the spectators all that action, to which goes men overfilled by love.
Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan, made only two acts, according to the spectators opinion was wholly enough, as a short briefing "How to survive with woman".
The history of two friends, Bedouin and Arab, with
lethal upshot, told in the second act, puts a big
question: whose direct charge is a woman – God’s or devil’s?