The artistic director of the Azerbaijan State Academic National
Drama Theater, Honored Artist Mehriban Alakbarzade has been awarded
Chingiz Aitmatov Award, Azernews reports.
Her candidacy was proposed by the IPA CIS Permanent Commission
on Culture, Information, tourism and Sport chaired by Deputy of the
Uzbekistan Supreme Assembly Erkin Zahidov.
In March, Mehriban Alakbarzade premiered her play "And the Day
Lasts Longer than a Century", which enjoyed a huge success in the
National Drama Theater.
The play, which is based on the work of Kyrgyz writer Chingiz
Aitmatov, has been included in the theater's repertoire.
Established by CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, Chingiz Aitmatov
Award has been awarded since 2014 for merits in the field of
culture, education, contribution to the development of the
humanities, literature and art, the study and preservation of
cultural heritage.
The prize also highlights the rapprochement and mutual
enrichment of cultures, peoples and nations.
Azerbaijan National Drama Theater opened its doors in 1873. The
comedy "Vizier of Lankaran khanate" was staged there.
Actors such as Huseyn Arablinski, Muxtar Dadashov, Jahangir
Zeynalov, Mirzaagha Aliyev, Sidgi Ruhulla, Alasgar Alakbarov, Adil
Iskandarov, Barat Shakinskaya, Leyla Badirbayli, and other famous
actors played at the theater.
Plays to works of Jafar Jabbarli, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ali Bay
Huseynzada, Najaf bay Vazirov, Huseyn Javid, Sabit Rahman, Nariman
Narimanov, Ilyas Afandiyev, as well as to works of other world
classics such as Shakespeare, Schiller, Moliere, Dumas, Hugo,
Balzac, Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Gogol were staged in the
theater in different years.
The theater team successfully toured Russia, Georgia, Turkiye,
Germany, Cyprus, and other countries.
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