White White Black Stork


White White Black Stork is an original play at Tashkent’s experimental “Ilkhom Theater” about homosexuality in pre-soviet Uzbekistan, based on a novel by national Uzbek Writer Abdula Kodiri. The story is about Makhzum, a dreamer, a poet, a young Muslim boy from the Old City of Tashkent, who “wasn’t like everyone” who couldn’t fight like the other boys, with no friends, who dreams in his yard. His parents send him to Madrassah, where he falls in love with his classmate.



Upon his parents discovery of his forbidden love and to avoid the rumours that might spread around the town, his parents forced him into an arranged marriage, he is forced into an arranged marriage to the daughter of a neighbor, a girl who only dreamed of the man, whose voice she fell in love with, the man who sells fabric.

Here's a link to the theater and the play:
http://www.ilkhom.com/english/repertoire/rept/article/17

This play is set in old Tashkent of 100 years ago, but the story rings so true today. In fact, it's very much like the story that I want to tell, eventually, as this blog develops. A foreshadowing of things to come.  ¶ 10:34 PM