AUTUMN ENNUI

AUTUMN ENNUI

be comedy of N.Nekrasov

Directed by Nabi Abdurakhmanov

Set designers – Nabi Abdurakhmanov, Dono Ganieva (Uzbekistan)

Costume Designer – Vassa Vasileva

Composer – Ilia Khalmurzaev (Russia)

Cast:

Jalol Yusupov and Obid Abdurakhmanov (Uzbekistan)

Duration of the show – 1 hour 10 min.

"Autumn Ennui" was originally staged by Nabi Abdurakhmanov at his ESSENCE Theatre-Studio in New York, as the first act of the show "The Sky Is Falling, or Joy and Sin". Subsequently, the play was staged as a joint project of the ESSENCE Theatre-Studio and the "DIYDOR" Tashkent Theatre-Studio in Uzbek language in 2019.

In the 19th century, Nikolay Nekrasov, a Russian literary master, wrote the dramatic comedy “Autumn Ennui”, depicting a bored old landowner and his quick-witted servant boy. This play was an innovative work that in many ways heralded the later Russian drama such as that by Turgenev and Chekhov. The current performance has been transferred to the beginning of the 20thcentury in Uzbekistan on the estate of a bored Uzbek landowner, and is done in the genre of the classic comedic Uzbek theatre of street clowns, maskharabozes.

This performance is a paean to the festive quality of theatre art. It is a performance not only for connoisseurs of theatrical art but for all those interested in new theatrical discoveries.

“This was a surprisingly interesting show, in fact, fantastic, with a depth of penetration into roles and into the subtext of the play. This performance was not simply made in the genre of classical Uzbek maskharabozes – of ancient street clowns – but a performance… that opens up something new in a Theatre art… The show was a big theatre holiday for all of us.”

Vladimir Ostrovsky. Theatre critic and professor, Tashkent

The show goes in Russian with English subtitles.