Uzbek poet, playwright, theatrical figure, director and translator. Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1941). He is one of the founders of the Uzbek musical drama genre. Author of a number of poems, plays, comic and literary-critical articles.
The Turan amateur theatre troupe, founded in Tashkent, is known to El as an actor, a skilled performer of Tatar, Azerbaijani and Uzbek comic and sharp character roles. In 1918, he wrote his first drama,” New and old”. Shamsiddin Khurshid’s work laid the cornerstone for the development of theatre and drama.Author of the historical drama” illiterate Rich“,” Little soldat“,” Siyovush qismati“,” son of a blacksmith“, pesalari;” Turkestan“; musical comedies” laughter and tears”.
A.The pesas “Farhad and Shirin” and “Layli and Majnun”, based on the Navoi epics, were published in Sh.Khurshid has a special place in his work. In the Uzbek theaters in the 1920s and 1930s, Adib’s pesas were extremely actively presented. Sh.Khurshid is also a.Navoi is also the author of the libretto of the operas “Layli and Majnun”(1940), “Farhad and Shirin” (1957), which were successfully staged at the major opera and Ballet Theatre.U.Gadjibekov has translated pesas from Azerbaijani, Russian and other languages into Uzbek by Mamadqulizoda, Schiller, Bill Belotserkovskiy and others. As director of the Uzbek troupe named” Tilak ” staged a number of performances.