Short Stories

His play ‘The Transit Passenger’ was presented successfully to the British audience in London, 2014 and 2015 I had the great opportunity to go to Kazakhstan for the first time last September. We were there to participate in the Festival of languages in Astana, where I had the privilege to meet Dulat Issabekov When I was told that we were to see his play, ‘The Transit Passenger’, three days in a row I thought this may be a test of endurance! The first evening we saw the play in English, the second evening in Russian and the third evening in Kazakh. However, instead of being a test of endurance it was actually a wonderful experience to understand the impact of different languages and different cultures on the same play. Each evening we had the opportunity to witness a uniquely individual interpretation of this wonderful play. ‘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…