Tare da samar da "Othello" na Shakespeare har ma da wasan opera, rayuwar al'adu a Turkmenistan na dawowa sannu a hankali bayan an dakatar da shi a karkashin mulkin Saparmurat Niyazov.
Niyazov, wanda ya mutu a shekara ta 2006, ya ba da umarnin rufe gidajen wasan kwaikwayo na tsakiyar Asiya a shekara ta 2001 kuma yanzu magajinsa Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov yana ganin an kwantar da hankali sosai.
Duk da haka har yanzu Turkmenistan ce, al'ummar da ba za a iya kwatanta keɓanta da Koriya ta Arewa ba. An taƙaita shakatawa kuma ana ci gaba da yin amfani da fasaha sosai don haɓaka halayen shugaban.
Niyazov, wanda ya kira kansa Turkmenbashi (Uban dukan Turkmen), ya shugabanci daya daga cikin mafi ban mamaki halaye a cikin tarihi bayan yakin, wanda ya kai ga kafa wani mutum-mutumi na zinariya da ya juya ya fuskanci rana.
Berdymukhamedov, wanda aka fi sani da Arkadag (Mai tsaro), ya fara yin gyare-gyare na wucin gadi ko da masu suka sun ce yana maye gurbin wata ƙungiya ce kawai da wani.
Babban misali mafi shahara na sabon yarda a Turkmenistan shine samar da "Othello" a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Rasha, wanda ke wasa da gidaje.
"A ƙarshe, bayan shekaru 10 sun fara ba da izinin samar da wasan kwaikwayo na wasan kwaikwayo na duniya," in ji 'yar fansho Anna Leonidovna, 58, mai cin gashin kanta. "Har kwanan nan duk an yi taron yabon Turkmenbashi kuma sun kawo sojoji daga bariki da dalibai daga jami'o'in gwamnati don cika dakunan taro," in ji ta.
A wani wurin, gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Dramatic, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo na Rasha Alexander Volodin ne ke kunna shi tare da kiɗa ciki har da zaɓi na ban mamaki na mawallafin lantarki na Faransa Jean Michel Jarre. Ƙungiyoyin al'adu na Ashgabat a halin yanzu suna da wasan opera guda ɗaya kawai a kan kallo - farfaɗo da jigo na gabas "Layla da Majnun" - amma ga mutane da yawa wannan a kansa wani abu ne mai ban mamaki. Shahararriyar mawaƙin Turkmen, mawaƙin opera kuma 'yar wasan kwaikwayo, Maya Kuliyeva, 90, wadda ta jagoranci wasan opera ta ce: "Kamar na girma fukafukai lokacin da shugaban ƙasa ya umarce ni da in fara wasan opera bayan shekaru da yawa na mantawa da su.
