Kyrgyz State Youth and Children's Theater named after B. Kydykeeva

When was the Kyrgyz Youth Theater created?

The Kyrgyz Youth Theater was established in the late 1920s.

After existing for about fifteen years, the theater was closed in 1943. The reason for this was the death of the long-time chief director of the theater, Otunchu Sarbagisheva. During the Great Patriotic War, when a total shortage of personnel was a common occurrence, there was no one to replace the talented creative leader.

In this theater, as a very young actress, the star of the Kyrgyz national stage and cinema of the 20th century, the incomparable Baken Kydykeeva, first gained fame by brilliantly playing the role of Laurencia at the age of 14 in the play "The Sheep's Spring," based on the drama by Lope de Vega.

Only 46 years after its closure, in 1989, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, the curtain of the Youth Theater was reopened.

Famous Theater Actors

From the first Youth Theater emerged the most famous actresses of the Kyrgyz theater of the 20th century: Baken Kydykeeva, Darkul Kuyukova.

The prestige of the Kyrgyz Youth Theater in the 1990s is more associated with such well-known names as the People's Artist of the USSR Kapar Medebekov, popular film actor of the Soviet Union Bolot Beyshenaliev, and the People's Artists of the Kyrgyz Republic Bakirdin Aliev, Nazira Mambetova.

Starting from the second half of the 1990s, a young generation of actors came to the forefront — Daria Kuseinova, Omurzak Toktomuratov, Gulmira Tashmatova.

In the 2000s, the troupe of the Youth Theater was replenished with talented youth (R. Kurmanaliev, M. Baigabulova, E. Tagaeva), who are now widely known in Kyrgyzstan.

The repertoire of the first Youth Theater was primarily focused on so-called class plays. *However, unlike other dramatic and musical-dramatic theaters in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s, due to its specificity, the Kyrgyz Youth Theater often staged plays based on folk tales, small epics, and dastans.

The Kyrgyz Youth Theater of the 1990s remained true to its epic-folkloric repertoire. Therefore, in the Youth Theater in the 1990s, such performances as "Er Töshtük" by J. Sadykov, "Kyz Saykal" by N. Zhundubaeva, created based on Kyrgyz epics, dominated.

Since 2000, the repertoire of the Kyrgyz Youth Theater has gradually changed towards modern stories. Plays such as "Talent and Destiny," "Chingiz and Byubusara," "Execution in Aksy or the Black Days of Bospiek," "Curse you, Zhanil Myrza-Salome!" by J. Kulmambetov, and "Hope" by Ch. Kalybekova formed the core of the modern themes of the Youth Theater in the 2000s.

In 2013, after a six-year creative stagnation, the theater began to revive.

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