About the stage adaptation:
 

“Jamila” is a theater play with songs. written by Amir Peter and inspired by the novel with the same name written by Chingiz Aitmatov.

The play tells the story of Akhmat, a Kyrgiz artist living in moscow in the 1950’s. Whom, due to an artist crisis, decides to travel back to his memories from his childhood in the Kyrgyzstan countryside. And to his first love and the wife of his elder brother- Jamila.
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Jamila's stage adaptation takes the breathtaking world of Aytmatov's book and forges it with one of its main motifs – Art and the meaning of freedom. The stage adaptation follows Akhmat ('Sait' in the book) as he struggles to find his muse. After visiting his abandoned birth home he recreates his childhood memories in his small workshop. As memories arise, they become living, breathing pictures made from the very materials of an artist workshop; The easel becomes the grain-cart, the painted rolled up canvas sheets spreads as green and yellow wheat fields and his toy horse's shade becomes Jamila's stallion. 

As the story progresses and Akhmat and Jamila's relationship gets more and more entangled, his emotions changes his painting style and the stage becomes more colorful and expressive. As the story unfolds through the artist retrospective, pictures becomes scenes (and vise-versa) and letters becomes songs.

Every character in the adaptation is in conflict between itself and its social circles –family, village, and country.