«Underground» Promenade Performance
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«Underground» is an audio journey created by Kazakhstan’s first independent theatre, guiding you along Almaty’s first pedestrian street. This is more than just a nostalgic theatrical walk - it’s an intimate, honest conversation with the city: its walls, pavement, and sky, with its real inhabitants and no less real ghosts.
The performance seeks to understand how it was possible to build a theatre without a budget, a permanent stage, advertising, business strategy, or the backing of «senior colleagues.» «Underground» tells a story of pure inspiration, of love, of the desire to live and create - not in spite of, but because of. Through the underground of the past, we enter the underground world of today.
With this promenade and a series of other events, ARTiSHOCK, Kazakhstan’s first independent theatre, opens its 25th anniversary season. A quarter of a century is not only the history of a theatre but also the story of a city and a country where something like «Artishock» could emerge.
Twenty-five years mark a journey of experiment and improvisation, of authorial theatre, exploration, laboratory work, personal choices, achievements, and reevaluation. For a quarter of a century, we have been creating an independent theatre - reinventing it every day, for ourselves and for our audience. Twenty-five years may be little for a person, but for a theatre - it is an era.
Cast: Aiganym Ramazan, Alexandra Devaeva, Salim Balgazin, Viktoria Mukhamedzhanova, Galina Pyanova, Aiganym Sagynbayeva, Olga Rubtsova, Aruzhan Eleu, Marup Zurdinov, Ulzhan Alpysai, Evgeny Ignatov.
