Ilkhom Theatre (Ильхом Театр Марка Вайля) is a
theatre company based in
Tashkent,
Uzbekistan. Founded by
Mark Weil
Mark Yakovlevich Weil (russian: Марк Яковлевич Вайль; 25 January 1952 – 7 September 2007) was a Soviet and Uzbekistani theatre director, and founder and art director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent. His parents, Ukrainia ...
(Марк Яковлевич Вайль) in 1976, it was the first independent theatre in the
Soviet Union, and remains self-supporting to this day.
Weil was murdered in September 2007.
The murderers claimed that they took action due to his portrayal of Muhammed in his play ''Imitating the Qu'ran.'' Three men were sent to prison for between 17 and 20 years,
His last production was the
Greek tragedy
Greek tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited Anatolia. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy.
Greek tragedy is widely believed t ...
''
The Oresteia''; despite his murder the day before it was scheduled to open, the actors went ahead because, according to them and to Mark Weil,
the show must go on.
In 2011 Ilkhom Theatre won one of the
Prince Claus Awards
The Prince Claus Fund was established in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of the Netherlands. It receives an annual subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Fund has presented the international Prince Claus Awards annually si ...
.
See also
*
Navoi Theatre
References
External links
*http://www.ilkhom.com
Theatre in the Soviet Union
Theatres in Uzbekistan
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