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  Natalya
Ilyinichna Sats was a legendary person. Having a creative personality,
she worked as a director, musicologist, playwright, and drama teacher.
She was a real encyclopedia of the world culture. She was surrounded with
music since she was young. Her father Ilya Sats was a composer, conductor
and the head of the Moscow theatre's musical department. Her mother Anna
Michailovna was a member of the choir in the same theatre. They met abroad
and fell in love with each other. When Ilya had to move to Irkutst, he
did not even hoped that Anna would follow him.
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was a hard 1944. The war was not over yet. Many things in the country
had to be restored. Kazakh children had no theatre of their own, and Sats's
initiative was backed - she received a task to found a new theatre. And
so actors began rehearsing plays for children in a dilapidated building
of the former film studio. At the same time the studio was gradually turning
into a theatre with its stage, balcony, and the pit.
 "Hi,
children! My name is Natasha!", with these words she began every
performance. Now children had a place to go; plays, meetings, concert,
and festivals were prepared only for them. And elders could not help admiring
the interior of the theatre decorated in the spirit of children's favorite
fairy-tales.
Natalya Sats's talent was great and many-sided, and her contribution
was invaluable. A part of her fruitful energy applied to Kazakhstani theatre
left its imprint on our souls.
Ludmila Varshavskaya
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