Dulat Issabekov

Song of the Swans Dulat Issabekov

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