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CONSTELLATION OF OMAR KHAYYAM Based on the poem of Timur Zulfikarov “Omar Khayyam’s Book of Revelations” The production is dedicated to blessed memory of my teachers – Olga Chernova and Irina Grinberg In memoriam to my mother – Ludmila Tsepenskaya Dramatized and directed by – Honored Worker of Arts of Uzbekistan Nabi ABDURAKHMANOV On April of 1998 the production was performed in 3rd Moscow A.Chekhov’s International Theatre Festival Duration – 2 hours and 15 minutes, intermission included. The plot of the poem, as well as of this production, revolves around the lifetime memories of the Poet in the last of his living days. With the power of his God-given talent and immense poetry he recreates, in front of eyes and around him, not just the timeline of his life stories – he creates that very life in a form more spiritually saturated and poetically exalted. In the very last of his days, the 83-years old man, lives a life of young lad Omar with a mad thirst for love, once again feels deeply the story of his love to a young girl Maina, her tragic death and the birth of their daughter Munisa, whom he loses as she went into the night, following the caravan trails on the Great Silk Road. The audience witnesses the love and death of Omar Khayyam’s friend – Abdurakhman-khan; drunkenly loud feasts at the Khan’s palace; intrigues and death of the Grand Vizier Nizam-al-mulk from the hands of Khasan Sabbakh’s assassins; Omar’s meeting with the maddokh-singer during the Hajj to Mecca, who appears to him as the Saint Khizir and teaches him the holiest truth of life, inherited from the Prophet Muhammad himself. Everything happening on the stage is retold to spectators in the form of a poetic allegory, just as the life, recreated by the Poet; the life, that even in the last of its days was lived at the highest extent of completeness and heavenly talent – the life of the great son of East – a poet, a scientist, a thinker – imam Gias-ad-din Abu-l Fatkh Omar ibn Ibrakhim, nicknamed Khayyam. The production is based on the very complex piece of literature – the poem by T. Zulfikarov (the Russian poet and writer, the Laureate of the International Award “Best European Novel” in 1993) “Omar Khayyam’s Book of Revelations”. The critics, who awarded the production with “Best Show” award, note that it’s thanks for the directional interpretation of Nabi Adburakhmanov this scenic adaptation transcended into a pure philosophical revelation. Timur Zulfikarov, who experienced the production himself, admitted that he had not expected anything like this - a brilliant, colorful, musically-mastered spectacle, which he proclaimed as: “A Magic of A Theatre, whereas Nabi Abdurakhmanov’s theatre is nothing close to a insincerity or falsity of any kind.
There are 24 actors taking part in performance. |
