Shusha State Musical Drama Theater will open a new season with
Jafar Jabbarli`s play "Faded Flowers" on September 8.
The play "Faded Flowers" has been staged many times by the
theater, which once again proves that Jafar Jabbarli brought new
voice, form, content and new qualities to the national drama
through his talent and hard work, Azernews reports.
All this highlights the uniqueness of the prominent dramatist's
approach to a separate individual and relations between people from
a special point of view.
It should be noted that Jafar Jabbarli's "Pale Flowers" tells
about Sara's pure love for her cousin and the crime of Gulnisa,
Sara's mother. Gulnis not satisfied with poisoning Sara's
father, but also wants to seize all his wealth. In order not to
reveal all these things, he separated Bahram from Sara and married
his own daughter. As a result, Sarah becomes a victim of
infidelity.
Tickets can be purchased on the iTicket.az website and at the city ticket
offices.
Jafar Jabbarli is a great Azerbaijani playwright and one of the
founders of the national film dramaturgy. He occupied a prominent
place in the development of Azerbaijani art and literature as a
playwright, poet, theater director, translator, and
screenwriter.
He was a prominent representative of progressive romanticism,
whose oeuvres reflected the sharp contradictions of Azerbaijani
society.
Jabbarli started writing at an early age. His first poem was
published in 1911, in the local newspaper Hagigat-i Afkar. In the
following years, he penned over 20 plays, as well as stories,
poems, essays, and articles.
He also translated European classics, such as Shakespeare's
Othello and Hamlet, Pierre Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro,
etc.
The writer's fowas on the theater where he achieved huge
success. His plays Baku War, Devoted Sariyya or Laughter Through
Tears, Shah Nasraddin, Bride of Fire, Sevil, and Almaz gained
widespread popularity.
In his plays, Jabbarli was keen on women's freedom, the
elimination of gender inequality, and the solution to problems
pertaining to mass ignorance among women.
Two of his plays, Sevil and Almaz, both written in 1928, focused
on women's role and their struggle against patriarchy.
In 1929, Sevil film was shot based on the play of the same name.
It was the first domestic film against gender inequality.
In this play, Jabbarli describes two women, Sevil, a beautiful
woman, who obeyed her husband unquestioningly, and Dilbar, Balash's
mistress, and a man named Balash, who disliked his past, repudiated
traditions and customs and turned away from his own father.
Inspired by the success of the play Sevil, Jafar Jabbarli
started to work on a screenplay for the film Almaz . Unfortunately,
he could not finish it amid health issues. His friends and
colleagues continued his cinematographic activities and completed
the shooting of the film that was released after Jabbarli's death.
The film tells about Almaz, who was not scared to come across a
"kulak" - a wealthy peasant, called Haji Ahmad. She fought against
kulaks, sparked a revolution in the village, led her struggle, and
won.
After so many years, Jabbarli's legacy still continues to
inspire people. The museum named after him was established in 1934.
Over 137,000 exhibits are stored at the Jafar Jabbarli Theater
Museum.
The Jafar Jabbarli State Theater Museum systematically holds
events dedicated to prominent theatrical figures, lectures, and
exhibitions. In 2004, the Union of Theater Workers awarded the
museum the Golden Dervish Award for the acquisition and storage of
materials on th