Karim Tinchurin Theatre Opens Moscow Tour with Play 'Mama Has Arrived'

The Karim Tinchurin Tatar State Drama and Comedy Theatre of Tatarstan has begun a tour in Moscow with 'Mama Has Arrived', based on a play by Tatar playwright Sharif Khusainov. Today, the musical comedy 'Kazan Boys', based on a play by Mansur Gilyazov, will be staged at the Theatre of Mimicry and Gesture.

The tour is timed to the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia and forms part of the company's journey through cities across the country. Shortly before arriving in Moscow, the actors performed in Grozny.

At the opening, theatre director Fanis Musagitov and Sumbel Taisheva, head of a sector of Tatarstan's Plenipotentiary Representation, congratulated the actors on their anniversaries and presented letters of thanks and commemorative gifts on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister Ravil Akhmetshin. Honored artists Gulchachak Khafizova and Almaz Fatkhullin, as well as honored and People's Artist and director Irek Khafizov, marked 50th anniversaries. People's Artist Nuretdin Nazhmiev, who turned 80, received a medal marking the 100th anniversary of Makhmut Gareev's birth.