The Underground Battle For Freedom

Down In A Small Tashkent Basement, You’ll Find A Bastion Of Hope and Liberty.
Matteo Fagotto
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) – The cosy underground stage is immersed in total darkness; the seats are filled to capacity. The theatre is so tiny that the first row of spectators shares the squeaky, wooden floor with the performers.

Suddenly, the spotlights dazzle a couple of young actors, battered and dressed in rags, lying among old barrels and plastic garbage. They impersonate two desperate young addicts from a poor neighbourhood. (more…)


“LYUDKA”. ABOUT THE OPENING NIGHT OF ONE OF THE MOST EXPECTED PERFORMANCES AT THE “ILKHOM” THEATER.

The opening night of the play by French director Antoine Gindt’s “Lyudka” took place on the stage of the “Ilkhom” Theater. The focus of the play is about a common family with a simple life and complicated relationships, consisting of three people who have the same names, the name that has become a kind of symbol of this play. Read the review about the opening night of the play by “The Mag”. Everyone who is in love with the “Ilkhom” Theater talked about the play even at the level of rehearsals. (more…)


ILKHOM THEATER: THE ABSOLUTE TOP OF CENTRAL ASIA IN THE CORRIDOR OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Can a theater, which has never belonged to mass art, somehow influence the outside world and bring people together in it? Does the country need its own international theater festival? Will the theater, which has already become part of the country’s history, receive the right to remain within its native walls?
Questions that remain unanswered and continue to cause judgments, reviews, remarks in social media. From the very day in early February, when clouds were gathering over the Ilkhom Theater, caused by progressive commodity-market relations, it became clear that dispersing these clouds only with the hands of people, who are not indisputable in estimates, but always indifferent to the fate of the beloved theater, will not be easy. (more…)