CORN OF MY SOUL 16
Galiasgar Kamal Tatar State Academic Theatre, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia The performance is part of the MITEM programme showcasing the theatres of ethnic and linguistic minorities.
Director: Farid Bikchantaev
Tatar with Hungarian and English subtitles
1 hours 20 minutes, without breaks.
"Corn of my soul!" This is how the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov addressed his sister Masha's friend, the future singer, actress, translator, literary and theatre critic Lydia Mizinova, in his letters.
They met in 1889. He was 29, and she was 19. He was a famous fiction writer, and she was a beginner teacher of the Russian language at a girls' gymnasium. The many years of their friendship were reflected in a correspondence that has repeatedly given contemporaries and posterity reason to speculate about the true feelings that connected these extraordinary individuals. It is known that the plot of Chekhov's famous "The Seagull" echoes events from Lika's life, but it seems the question of whether their relationship contained those famous "five poods of love" remains a mystery to this day.
The play is based on the letters of Anton Pavlovich and Lika. The epistolary battles unfolding on the pages are transformed by young actors, whose graduation performance was decided to be included in the theatre's repertoire, into an ironic and simultaneously funny story about the transience of life and the fleeting nature of happiness.
Awards of the performance:
Winner of the main theatrical award of Russia "Golden mask" in the nomination "The Best Performance of a Great Form" and "The work of a costume artist"
Actors:
Lejsan Gabdrakhmanova
Irkhan Gabdullin
Azaliya Gajsina
Firzar Galimov
Aliya Garifullina
Ilgiz Giniyatullin
Azaliya Giniyatullina
Zaliya Zajnetdinova
Ilyusa Kamalieva
Bulat Mukhametzyanov
Chulpan Nazipova
Rinat Nizamov
Iskander Nizamiev
Samat Khabirov
Theatre team:
Yakupov Ilfir
Vildanova Zukhra
Nurtdinov Zufar
Akhmetov Rafael
Kulmametov Ilnar
