Ilkhom Theatre
Encyclopedia
Ilkhom Theatre is a theatre
company based in Tashkent
, Uzbekistan
. Founded by Mark Weil
(Марк Яковлевич Вайль) in 1976, it was the first independent theatre in the Soviet Union
, and remains self-supporting to this day.
The theatre is described in a BBC Radio 4
Crossing Continents
documentary in April 2008, which deals primarily with the murder in September 2007 of an acclaimed director Mark Weil. His last production was the Greek tragedy The Oresteia
; despite his murder the day before it was scheduled to open, the actors went ahead because, according to them, the show must go on
.
In 2011 Ilkhom Theatre won one of the Prince Claus Awards
.
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
company based in Tashkent
Tashkent
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...
, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
. Founded by Mark Weil
Mark Weil
Mark Yakovlevich Weil was a Soviet and Uzbekistan-born theatre director, and founder and art director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent. His parents, Ukrainian Jews, had arrived in Uzbekistan in the late 1930s...
(Марк Яковлевич Вайль) in 1976, it was the first independent theatre in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, and remains self-supporting to this day.
The theatre is described in a BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
Crossing Continents
Crossing Continents
Crossing Continents is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary programme, focusing on foreign affairs issues through on-location journalism and interviews from various parts of the world...
documentary in April 2008, which deals primarily with the murder in September 2007 of an acclaimed director Mark Weil. His last production was the Greek tragedy The Oresteia
The Oresteia
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. When originally performed it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed following the trilogy; it has not survived...
; despite his murder the day before it was scheduled to open, the actors went ahead because, according to them, the show must go on
The show must go on
"The show must go on" is a well-known phrase in show business, meaning that regardless of what happens, the show must still be put on for the waiting patrons...
.
In 2011 Ilkhom Theatre won one of the Prince Claus Awards
Prince Claus Awards
The Prince Claus Fund was inaugurated in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of The Netherlands. It receives an annual subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
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External links
- http://www.ilkhom.com