JAKO’S KHIZNEBI (JAKO’S MINGRANTS)

Based on novel by Mikheil Javakhishvili

Director Nika chikvaidze

Scenography byAnano dolidze

Costumes Designer Anano dolidze

Choreographe :Irina kuprava

Composer Nika Chikvaidze

Assistant to the director Eka kulua

 

Cast:

Teimuraz - Gena Shonia

Jako – Giorgi Surmava

Margo – Ana Andguladze

Ivane- Ramin Kilasonia

Alika Tsekvashvili. Shota Sasania, Guram 

Dvalishvili, Nika Kvaratsxelia

Duration:90 min, no intermission

On tour – 14 persons.

 

Genre – Social Realism

"Jako's Khiznebi" - is the story of one man and one country. While the enemy does not sleep 

and has turned the Georgian land into a road , Teimuraz Khevistavi simply is slumbring. His 

House is filled with guests, as if it is hotel, and the host closes his eyes, hears nothing and 

says nothing. The ancestral estate of the Khevistavis has turned into a well-equipped hotel

which serves vizitors. And he behaves as if he is a guest in his own estate, in his own 

homeland. Hopeless, sinking, used to fate, saddened by the past, dissatisfied with modern 

times and hopeless. However, very soon everything changes and you see the future from a 

completely different angle and perspective... that's hope. Hope, that very important and 

decisive news are coming… The play is about threats and challenges that represent the fate of 

a small country.

A small country fighting for independence and freedom. The fight is uncompromising and 

the small country achieves freedom in the finale of the play. With forgiveness and hope for a 

new, kind and exciting future.

 

Review 

n 1937, the victim of the "Red Terror" Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili's novel "The Ghosts of Jako" 

(1924) always has a place in the Georgian theater and always maintains its contemporaneity. The "time" of the 

"jakko" (the ascended violent and savage) can always be returned, because it adapts and governs all 

circumstances, all societies - which it conquers, destroys - morally and physically. In the dramatic theater of 

Poti, with the new version of the young director Nika Chikvaidze, the problems in the novel were adapted to 

today's reality and acquired a new face, load and expression

The director left the signs, clues, symbols and codes in the performance built using cinematographic methods 

(divided into frames, views, parallel action and layers, shading, lighting, details highlighted by lighting, 

alternation of perspectives, events) to be solved and deciphered by the director, and it can be said that he left 

them as a puzzle. according to the personal responsibility of each

The concise, conditional and abstracted narrative and the sharply defined, typical faces of the acting characters 

generally reflect the image of an unprincipled, incompetent and submissive society, which becomes a victim 

because it agrees to be a victim, and in the play it is transformed from a character into a symbol of precious 

losses of the homeland, self, dignity and honor.