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Auezov Kazakh State Academic Drama Theatre, Alma-Ata, 1988. Wraps, [88] pp.; 25 cm; text in Russian; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. Text by G. Bekkhozhina and A. Rakhimov; compiled with photographs by K. Kabdeshov. Printed in Tallinn by the press of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia in an edition of 35,000 copies.
In Acceptable condition. Ex-library. Staple bound in cream wraps; front cover with title in maroon and color photograph of the statue of Mukhtar Auezov; rear cover with color photograph of the auditorium seen from the stage. Tearing around staples on both covers, with covers starting to pull away from text block; tears of about one inch at head and foot of spine. Rear cover heavily rubbed and soiled with creasing; front cover lightly soiled and creased. Library call number label on front cover; librarian's pencil transliteration, translation and call number on title page. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Souvenir booklet of the Auezov Theatre in Alma-Ata, the first professional Kazakh theatre, which opened on January 13, 1926 with Mukhtar Auezov's tragedy Enlik-Kebek. A history essay traces the company from its first productions through its major successes, including Chingiz Aitmatov's Mother's Field (premiered 1964, directed by Azerbaijan Mambetov, and shown at the international theatre festival at Shiraz, Iran, in 1973), Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's Blood and Sweat (USSR State Prize, 1974; staged by Mambetov at the Prague National Theatre in 1976), Musrepov's Kozy Korpesh-Bayan Sulu at the Theatre des Nations festival in Nancy in 1984, and the company's first Chekhov, Uncle Vanya (1982). Full cast lists are given for Mother's Field, Blood and Sweat, Herve's Mademoiselle Nitouche and Dulat Isabekov's The Heirs. Maroon-printed photograph pages include portraits of the theatre's leadership, among them artistic director and screen actor Asanali Ashimov, People's Artist of the USSR, along with production stills; color photographs show the company and the theatre building. The title page lists the 1988 repertoire of eighteen productions, including Aitmatov's The White Steamship. The theatre marked its centenary in 2026.