Song of the Swans: Selection of Plays

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The famous Kazakh playwright Dulat Issabekov celebrates his 75th Anniversary in October 2017. To this Diamond Jubilee we’d like to offer the readers a selection of his popular plays: Song of the Swans, the Actress, A Man on a Mission, the Transit Passenger and the Monument.

His play ‘The Transit Passenger’ was presented successfully to the British audience in London, 2014 and 2015.

‘The Transit Passenger’ is a play about life, about growing older, and it is a play about the anxiety of being left alone with your memories. By the time when I saw the play in the original Kazakh language, beautifully acted - even though I didn’t understand a word of Kazakh - I had tears in my eyes…

Baroness Alison Suttie