Uzbek

Peripheral Visions is a multidisciplinary arts festival organised by GRAD that brings together three documentary theatre productions on the themes of migration and social inequality in Bulgaria, Russia, and the UK.

Talgat Batalov’s autobiographical production Uzbek recounts the performer’s own experience immigrating to Moscow from Tashkent at the age of nineteen. A ‘stand-up comedy solo show’, Uzbek is a sarcastic deconstruction of Batalov’s own national identity as a Muscovite-Uzbek of Tatar descent. In the show, Batalov presents his audience members with his actual immigration papers, raising questions around the status of documents and the performance of national identity in contemporary culture. Written in collaboration with Ekaterina Bondarenko, Uzbek is a co-production of Teatr.doc and the Joseph Beuys Theatre.