Students of the Turkmen State Institute of Culture pass graduation performances. The best test for young directors and actors is the stage, the first in their art activity, in the Mollanepes Student Theater.
Among the recently presented stage works was the one-act comedy "The Bear" by Anton Chekhov, the classic of world literature.
Fifth-year student Atajan Bekiev took on the production under the guidance of artistic director and teacher Charyyar Seyidov. By the way, the young man proved himself not only as a director, but also performed the main role as an actor. His landowner Grigory Smirnov turned out to be bright and colorful.
Having appeared at the house of the widowed landlady Elena Popova (fifth-year student Ogulshat Jumaeva), demanding the return of his debt, the indignant Smirnov decides that he will not go anywhere until he gets his money back. Neither the landlady nor her elderly lackey Luka (fourth-year student Bagtyyar Dollyev) can drive Smirnov away. The hero brazenly walks around the landlady's living room, rests, lounging on a sofa, and then, out of the blue, picks up his guitar and sings at the top of his voice: "Oh, frost, frost, don't freeze me - don't freeze me, my horse."
In the end, the insolent behavior of the guest drives the landlady out of herself. And the conflict flares up with a redoubled force.
It is worth noting that Chekhov's "The Bear" has been popular since the day it was written.
As history testifies, once, in February 1888, the playwright invited guests to his home and, taking a thin notebook from the table, standing in the middle of the room, gesticulating, changing voices, read this merry play to those present in the one breath. Soon, "The Bear" began to be staged at various Russian theaters. Even the Emperor Nicholas II played its main character in his home theater in a family circle.
The graduates of the Turkmen State Institute of Culture, having tried on the sharp-featured roles of the play, presented this timeless story to a commission consisting of famous directors and cultural figures of our country. The auditorium reacted vividly to the successful mise en scene of the play and the replicas of the characters.
The culmination of the action was the mutual reconciliation of the parties. Love triumphed. And, judging by the fervent applause, the student theater production was accepted with a Bang!
