My childhood impression: Mama and Papa were real wizards - they could turn into anybody they wanted!
We children were the witnesses of the birth of these transformations. They were complicated births: sometimes there were arguments during the rehearsal process, which sometimes, even though rarely, turned into quarrels.
"Why are they so tormented about it? Why?" - I found the answer to my childish question already as a grown-up, in Papa's notes:
"There is this rule - any role, even without words, should be wrung out , to the maximum of all the possibilities; any role should be played to the utmost."
And that is how they played.
Center of Asia. Translated by Heda Jindrak
