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Mazhit Gafuri

The Darkfaces (The Slandered) 16

Bashkir State Academic Drama Theater named after Mazhit Gafuri

Director: Ajrat Abusahmanov

Performed in Bashkir language with Hungarian subtitle

1 hours 45 minutes, without breaks.

Is it possible to allow the beautiful Galima, the pride of the village, to fall in love with an ordinary village boy Zakir? Reactionary rural people are outraged: the heroes were caught talking. "Does Shariat law allow a girl to communicate with a boy?" they ask Hazrat. What decision should a minister of faith make? To forgive Galima and Zakir means, according to the laws of faith, to lose authority in the eyes of fellow villagers. His rank obliges him to stand guard over morality. One thing remains − to punish.

What is the play "The Darkfaces" about today, when religious motives have receded into the background, and ordinary human vices have come forward? It's all the fault of people who are able to justify immoral acts with religious postulates. The tragedy focuses on human nature. And this is a timeless, eternal theme. Like life.

ACTORS AND PERFORMERS:

Galima — Gulnara Kazakbayeva
Zakir —Artur Kabirov
Fakhri — Almas Amirov
Hamida — Ilsiyar Gazetdinova
Beder — Gulnara Amirova
Gimadi — Irek Bulatov
Gali — Lilia Galina
Akhunhazrat — Khurmatulla Utyashev
Kazy — Raus Zagitov
Gilmi — Tanzilya Khisamova
Nagimkhalfa — Yunir Kulanbayev
Gayfulla — Rinat Baymurzin

In the mass scenes there are shakirds, mowers, girls, village people:

Ural Aminov, Azat Valitov, Murat Rafikov, Ainur Sitdikov, Zilia Sitdikova, Ruslan Khaysarov, Gulnaz Khaysarova, Zilara Yultayeva, Aidar Shamsutdinov, Sabina Kireeva, Iluza Kusiabaeva

Playwright (authors of the dramatization):

Airat Abushakhmanov, Honored art maker of the Republic of Bashkortostan, laureate of the Salavat Yulaev State Prize;
Shaura Gilmanova, Honored art maker of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Production designer: Albert Nesterov, Honored art maker of the Republic of Bashkortostan, laureate of the Salavat Yulaev State Prize
Costume designer: Albert Nesterov, Honored art maker of the Republic of Bashkortostan, laureate of the Salavat Yulaev State Prize
Choreographer: Rinat Abushakhmanov, Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan; Sulpan Askarova, Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Composer: Ilshat Yakhin, Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan

OTHERS:

Lighting designer – Ilshat Sayakhov
Consultant on rituals − Asia Gainullina
Choirmaster – Alsu Hasbiullina

Main Stage (Stage auditorium)

Ajrat Abusahmanov

Actor, director, Merited Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, State Prize-winning theatre-maker. Born in 1974 in Ufa, capital of the Republic, Russian Federation, he studied at Ufa Art College and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. He worked as a director at the New Drama Theatre in Moscow, then joined the company of Mazhit Gafuri Bashkir Academic Drama Theatre in Ufa, where he was an actor from 1995 to 1998, a full-time director from 2003-2004 and 2012-2019, and a principal director from 2005-2012. He has been the theatre's principal director since 2019. His productions have participated in numerous theatre festivals in Bashkortostan, Russia and abroad and have won many prestigious creative awards.

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