Folklore motifs in the stage interpretation of Zainab Biisheva's novel "The Humiliated"

The subject of the study is the play "Humiliated" based on the novel of the same name by Z. Biisheva. Staging a literary work always requires a specific approach of the playwright and director to the artistic material. In this regard, the potential of the National Youth Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan named after Mustaya Karim exactly meets these requirements for the production of the novel "The Humiliated" by Zainab Biisheva (director M.Kulbaev, 2019). The purpose of the study is to analyze the preservation of folklore motifs abounding in the author's work in its stage transformation. Methods used: ideological-thematic, ideological-aesthetic, comparative-historical. The work "The Humiliated" (1956-1959) by Z. Biisheva is part of a trilogy, the rest of which are called "At the Big Ica" (1965-1967) and "Emesh" (1967-1969). The play is staged according to the first part of the trilogy and captures the life story of Emesh during the Civil War with abundant depiction, artistic use of folklore material. The production director managed to reflect in two actions the main ideological and thematic, ideological and aesthetic peculiarities of the novel, to solve the main problem of the work by using the possibilities of theatrical art. The results of the conducted research can be used when writing a monograph on the history of scenic reinterpretation of the works of Bashkir writers of different years, the problem of staging an epic canvas to embody the national "epic theater" (the term Skorokhodova N.S.). The article concludes that the folklore traditions that permeate the body of the performance become that connecting thread with a bygone era, phrases in the Bashkir language used by the characters add authenticity to the theater performance.

Zainab Biisheva, novel, archetypes, Bashkir, fairy tales, staging, drama, theatre, Musalim Kulbaev, folklore