The article discusses the role and importance of folk art heritage in the development of national theater art in Central Asia.  To date, the theatrical art of the region has a great experience and it has the opportunity to compare its culture with others. Epic direction is one of the points of support, one of the heights from which you can look at the experience and trends of the world of theatrical art. (72)

In folk epics, various elements of culture and spirituality are traced, and the peculiarities of a particular nationality are revealed.

The entry of the European style of theater into the framework of the culture of Central Asia certainly influenced the development of traditional theater of the people. Creative figures faced the problem of showing their performances on closed stages, in rooms.

In the pieces, folk customs are presented following a common pattern, whereas national theatres offer their own interpretation, reflecting the culture, customs, and the nation’s past.   Not only essentially different pieces of the same title and subject, created by different nations, differ in style, methods, means of artistic representation and character interpretation, and never a hero of one nation is a repetition of the image created by the neighboring nation. This is how the nation’s mentality, culture, spiritual character, and traditional values are exposed. This, in turn, is a dominant feature in the evolution of theatres.   Thus, the epic heritage serves as the golden treasure of the theatrical culture of Central Asia.

Central Asia, epics, theatre, folk art, culture, transformation, method, history, tradition, trends

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