News
6 November 2021
A few days prior the Victory Day, Heyran Gorchu, assistant artistic director, addressed the audience of our “Leyli and Majnun” show with a special opening speech. Noting heroic dedication of the martyrs, who paid their lives for this day, Heyran-khanum also expressed the deep gratitude to all veterans, because they bravely fought against the invaders and won, whilst many of them were injured. After congratulations on the first anniversary of the glorious victory won under the leadership of Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev, she stressed that this long-awaited event is especially close to our theatre, because Baku Marionette Theatre had emerged due to creative heritage of the great Uzeyir Hajibeyli. Uzeyir-bey grew up and obtained his initial impuls as a great composer and playwright in Karabakh, Shusha, and if that didn't happen then our theatre would not appear at all. Heyran-khanum expressed the theatre team's hope for an honour to perform soon in Shusha – Uzeyir-bey’s homeland. The show of that evening was notable for special inspiration and excitement of the performers.
18 June 2021
The Baku Marionette Theatre actors Hasan Yagubov and Hikmet Aydinoghlu, who work here since 1988, were awarded on the occasion of their 60th anniversary for contribution to development of the national performing art – personal honorary diplomas were issued by the Azerbaijan Union of Theatre Figures.
https://azerbaijantoday.az/2021/06/01/art-of-a-second-wind/
7 June 2021
The world culture has faced an irrecoverable loss – great son of the Georgian Nation, a famous director, dramatist, artist, sculptor ... a great performer in the broadest sense of the word Rezo Gabriadze has died.
In 1981, Gabriadze founded the famous Tbilisi Marionette Theatre and rest of his further on life went joined to this theatre. It was due to professional cooperation, personal creative and energetic interaction with this great Master, that young Azerbaijani director and artist Tarlan Gorchu in the mid-1980s got an idea of creating a Marionette theatre in Baku. So, indirectly, Rezo Gabriadze stood at the origins of our theatre as well.
Rezo Gabriadze is also known as a scriptwriter of more than 35 movies, including such masterpieces of the world cinema as Don't Grieve (1969) and Mimino (1977).
Gabriadze has died at the age of 84 in Tbilisi.
Rest in peace, dear Master!
20 October 2020
Karabakh is Azerbaijan! Please feel free to use these banners (see below) on your own profiles because #karabakhisazerbaijan.
For printing them as posters of the A1, A2 and A3 size with either white or black background please click the needed one among the links below:
(The logotype by: Tarlan Gorchu)
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12 October 2020
When in the early 90s we performed “Arshin Mal Alan” for our wounded soldiers who fought in Karabakh, it seemed to us that the injustice would not last long; our lands will be reclaimed, refugees will return to their homes, everything will come back to its former course.
But the apartness turned to be too long: whilst 20 percent of our lands went occupied and a million people lost their homes, still negotiations lasted about 30 years and failed to bring any solution.
As a result, when the occupant troops of Armenia launched another armed provocation on September 27, the Azerbaijani army responded hitting a counter-strike – our sufferance came to an end! We were waiting for this day almost 30 years, with our heads up and our eyes open, and finally it has come!
Hopes overfill us. Stay strong, Azerbaijani Soldier! Due to your valiancy, the works by genius Uzeyir Hajibeyli of Shusha will return to our native land of Karabakh, and music by this great son of our Nation will sound here again!
Karabakh is Azerbaijan! We are coming back to Karabakh!
P.S. Two days ago the team of Baku Marionette Theatre donated 5,000 manats to the Fund for Assistance to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
