The third day of the festival «Theatre.UZ/2013»

October 22, at the third day of the IV International Theatre Festival «Theatre.UZ/2013» were 2 master classes with theater critic from Germany Nina Mazur and french actor, director and producer Greg Germain. In the theater - studio "Diydor" was shown a performance diploma "Halima" under the "Creative Youth". Namangan Regional Theater of Musical Drama named after A. Navoi and Kokand Theater of Musical Drama named after Hamza have presented their performances on the stages of the capital's theaters. On the stage of the Academic Russian Drama Theatre of Uzbekistan Chamber Drama Theatre of Russia again showed his play "Klassika.ru". The third day of the festival has ended with play "Anthology" of Israeli theater center ACCO.

The third day of the festival began at the State Institute of Arts and Culture, where was a master class of theater critic, poet, playwright and essayist Nina Mazur. The main topic of the student and critic`s meeting was a of mono-theater. She told the audience about the differences between the eastern and western theater. As it turned out, the story is important for the East and it is concerned about the problem of morality. In addition, Mazur told how popular mono performances have become, where the main thing is loneliness: the loneliness of love, loneliness talent. Communicating with the students - participants of the master class, Nina Mazur has promised to come back to Tashkent in order to give a lecture to students at the State Institute of Art and Culture.

Nina Mazur - theater critic, playwright, She is member of the International Association of Theatre Critics ( UNESCO), member of the German- Russian Literary Society «Die Fähre» ( Germany, Hannover), and the International Association of Writers and publicists (APIA, London). Nina Mazur plays are performed in the original and in translation on the stages of many European theaters, her poetry and theater articles are published in periodicals around the world. She is also the initiator and advisor of several international theater festivals in different countries around the world. Artistic director of the International Festival " Vidlunnya " ( Kiev, Ukraine) and the International Festival «MOST» ( Germany).

Within the boundaries of the Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan held a meeting with French actor and director Greg Germain. At the meeting, he gave a master class on acting.

During the master class, French guest said that such festivals as Theatre.UZ - a great opportunity for young actors to learn about acting schools of other countries and to learn from the famous theater artists. And the older generation, in turn, have the chance to share their experience. For master - class Greg chose three texts from the classics of French literature: two tragedies and one comedy. In their example, he showed how to work with text, feel punctuation, correct selection of intonation and thus follow the gestures and posture.

Greg Germain - President of the theater festival "Avignon-Off." The director has staged over 30 performances. Combining theatrical activities, he works in the movies. Starred in such films as "Farewell, Barbara" by M. Deville and "Borsalino and the company" J. Dere with Alain Delon. Greg Germain is also engaged in dubbing, he is the French voice of American actors like Will Smith, Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier.

Under the "Creativity of Young" in the theater - studio "Diydor" was shown a performance diploma "Halima" ( Mr. Zafar ) directed by Ramziddin Kadyrov. This is the first musical drama, written on the basis of Kokand events in 1910. Halima, the only daughter of the merchant Muslim, grew up in the yard of Ortikbay. Rahim, Nemat`s father was a worker in the yard. Nemat and Halima were in love with each other. Ortikbay sends Nemat instead of his brother to Siberia as a laborer. Nemat returned from Siberia seriously ill with tuberculosis. Ortikbay, who already has had three wives, decided to marry on Halima. Persuading medicine man, Ortikbay, poisons Nemat.

On the stage of the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre Namangan regional musical Drama theater named after A. Navoi presented a play "for reasons of conscience" directed by Karim Yuldashev. Consciously feeling the onset of a new time, general director of the company Kudrat Batirov decides to quit his job and wrote a statement on his own. Relatives and friends refer to this event with understanding. The only unhappy incurred was his son Shukhrat Batirov, preparing for a scientific career. Psychological conflict between father and son becomes the cause of death of the hero.

In the Uzbek State Drama Theatre Kokand Theatre of Musical Drama named after Hamza under the "Creative Youth" presented the play "The Mother of the Aral Sea", directed by R. Abdullayev. This performance is about the dreams of one old woman, who lives on the shores of the Aral Sea. The old lady is eager to preserve the builder of boats profession, which left of her husband, an old man. To this end, she gathers the local youth. Every morning the old woman wakes up with a great hope that the Aral Sea will be again full of water ...

Ended the third day of the festival with the play "Anthology" of Israeli theater center ACCO directed by Moni Yosef. Mirror of today's Israeli society through the eyes of woman who survived the Holocaust, the play "Anthology" expresses the reality of a woman pursued by shadows of the past. In essence, the "Anthology" shows us how the process of dehumanization may lead to the restoration of the desire of mankind to excess, denial of the bitter experience of submission to oppression. The play shows how a person subjected to torture can become a torturer as a deviated memory can lead to the restoration of oppression and the oppression of the innocent in the future.

"Anthology" is successfully played in different contexts and in different countries, attracting the attention of everyone to its prejudices and preconceptions, no matter who he is - a German, a Japanese, an Israeli or American.