Festival of the School of Dramatic Arts of Mark Weil's Ilkhom Theatre
Dear friends, all events that will take place during the 33rd theatre season- will take place within the framework of the Festival of the School of Dramatic Arts- all of our graduates, and of  course  all of our teachers will celebrate 20 years of our school! (The first course was started in 1989)
At the Presentation on September 12th- you can take part in a real theatrical holiday- a short guide to all that will happen during the 33rd season.
Tickets are available at the theater box-office.

Plans for the 33rd Theatre Season - 2008-2009

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«He came to us along with the rain. We all were puzzled as he came. But it was raining, so we decided that the arrival of this person was also a good sign».
«Clay Letters, Drifting Apples» by Sukhbat Aflatuni

This is a full-scale producing work of Anton Pakhomov, the key actor of Ilkhom Theater, the winner of two Mark Vail Ilkhom Theater Prizes in 2008 (The Best Actor of the Year and The Audience Appreciation.) The play is based on Clay Letters, Drifting Apples, a novel-parable by Evgeny Abdullaev (Sukhbat Aflatuni,) the famous Tashkent author, the first laureate of the Russian Award 2005.
In you are interested in supporting this and other projects of the Theater, as well as the young generation of the Ilkhom actors, your sponsorship and contribution will be greatly appreciated.
Your friendly support ONLY can ensure the fulfillment of new interesting and beautiful ideas.
«Clay letters»: Etudes (rehearsals) of August. № 1

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Project made possible by the frnch Embassy of Uzbekistan and the V. Hugo French Cultural Center.
September 20, 23, 25 and 27th we will introduce the Tashkent public three French plays, which, maybe, are not completely new to the theatre world, but the dramatic class and themes reflected in them are worthy of the chance for the Tashkent public to see them on the professinal stage, at least in the form of a staged reading. In choosing the plays we went from the principal of intorducing Tashkent to the more meaningful and modern presentations in the European dramatic tendancy.
20th September - «Up-grade» by David Lesco(a solo perforance моноспектакль In French, prefomed by Reginald Ugenen (France)
The visit by Reginald Ugenen was organized within the framework of  the program «One actor, one author»by the Agency CulturesFrance, French operations for international cultural exchange.
23 September – «I was waiting at home, waing for the rain to fall» by Jean-Luc Lagars (Directed by Vecheslav Tzu)
25 September– «Roberto Zukko» by Bernar-MarieKoltes(Directed by Boris Gafurov)
27 September – «Oscar and the Pink Lady» Eric-Emmanuel Shcmitt(Directed and performed by Marina Turpisheva and Olga Volodina)

The 6th Annual Tashkent Poetry Festival in Uzbekistan, takes place from September 26th-29th 2008
Festival Sponsors:The Litreary Musem of S. Esenin in Tashkent, The creative organization «Tashkent poetry school», Magazine «Star of the East».
The Tashkent Open Poetry Festival is the only poetic forum n the region, allowing for the union of Russian speaking  authours, from Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Russia, and other post soviet countries of the near abroad.
Main goals of the festival:
- to stimulate creative growth in the literary community of  Uzbekistan- specially among the youth;
- the creation of creative bridges between Russian language writers in Uzbekistan and Russia, as well as in other countries of the near abroad.
- support for and growth of Russian literature in Central Asia.
In the final evening of the festival, poets from different countries of the world, the Omnibus Ensamble, and the actors of ur theatre will meet on the stage of the «Ilkhom Theatre».

Mikhael Rozenbloom- «a historic» name in our theatre.He is one of the original «Ilkhomers». His debut as a composer was in «Ilkhom», and is one of the authors for music from legendary performances such as «The Dragon», «Dear Yelena Sergeyvna», «Goodbye, овраг», «My Happiness». He worked with Mark Weil as well sa in Moscow.
The concert of Mikhael Rozenbloom- is a day to honor the memory of a dear friend and great artist.  The Omnibus Ensamble will also take part in the concert. The programe will include Bramms, Shostakovich, Hindemit, and others.

Participants will include:Georgi Dmitriev (vocal), Marat Maksudov (piano), Aleksandr Vishnevsky (piano). The evening will feature vocal and piano arrangements by Pyotr Chaikovski, and Sergei Rakhmaninov.
A few words from Georgi Dmitriev: This year is Zhenya's jubile- 35 years. This eveing is a rare and large present. Zhenya loved the classics, and of course really loved Chikovski and Rakhmaninov. For audiences Chikovski has come to mean ballet and opera, Rakhmaninov- grand piano concerts. But, both of these composers wrote exquisite romances, which were written to the words of the greates poets. These romances are especially - hot, controlled, sensetive, and strict,  but always very honest and overflowing with genius musical factors. You want to sing them. I hope, you also want to listen, although I definatley know you MUST.There is much in them written about that time and our time. Their main character is man, and his senses, thoughts, attachments, joy, pain, madness, and hapiness...

With the support of the Swiss Beuro for Growth and Development.
Theatrical costumes- an independent presentation of art, incorperated into other presentations of art. The more well concived and professional the thetrical costumes, the less they are noticed in a performance. However,  if  one pays special attention to each costume and all costumes in the perfromance as a whole, one is able to find out incredible information about each character, the time of the action, and the inventions of the director and artists.
The intent of the exhibitinon is to focus the attention of the audience on thearical costumes as an indipendent art form.In this exhibition you will find a collection that has been gathered,  restored, or created by Maria Soshina, for various performances in many different theatres from the years 2000-2008.

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A premier of the first graduation production of the 6th Studio of the Ilkhom Theater staging by Johann Bott, a young director from St. Petersburg, will take place in June 2008 with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland – a decoration and stage design of the producfinancial support of stage design of the graduation production of the Ilkhom Drama School, the Embassy of Germany in Uzbekistan – financial support of the director invited for a staging of the performance, the Goethe Institute in Tashkent – purchasing of the copy right for staging and translation of the play, the SRX < avation and logistics  – a support of the director.
For the first time a play by a young German playwright Anja Hilling «Sinn»/«Senses» will be presented in the territory of CIS countries (translation by Johann Bott and Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya). Rehearsals will start on 19 April 2008.
The Premier of June, 20

We invite for cooperation to realize these and other projects of the Ilkhom Theater everybody, who wants to support a young generation of the Ilkhom Theater actors, all not indifferent people, who cares of the Theater’s future. We will be glad to all sponsors and Maecenases.
Interesting, remarkable and outstanding projects can be realized ONLY with your friendly support!

On June, 19th - V.Evdokimova and T.Karpova's photosight: «SENSES»,
the chapter of «Eye»
of the chapter «Nose» and «Leather»
of the chapter «Language» and «Ears»

SINN/SENSES - the third stage of rehearsals, May, 1
SINN/SENSES - the second stage of rehearsals
SINN/SENSES - the first stage of rehearsals

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Ladies and gentlemen!
For your convenience several performances in our theater are being presented with English subtitles. Now you can not only enjoy the exiting play of our actors, and read the full text as well! No more guessing in regards to what the actors on stage are saying! We anxiously await your visit to the performance of the Ilkhom Theatre!

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A multimedia music project dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
…Yes, here is a parable alternates with a historical document, which inexorably confirms a rebellious spirit of Mashrab, who selected a difficult, but absolutely unique way of the world and truth perception. This is the way of a free spirit, who does not take the truth from strange, even notable, hands, the way of a maskaraboz (a buffoon), who impartially tells fair accusations to unrighteous rulers’ face.
«Mashrab and Mozart – the accord of geniuses» by Yuriy Podporenko, «Vecherniy Tashkent»б May, 2006

Performances with subtitles in English.

«…Thus, a polyphony of voices coloring the immense spectrum of human experience was born in Ilkhom Theatre… Aeschylus «Oresteia» became one of the biggest, most sophisticated, and most expensive (in terms of technology) productions of the theatre thus far.  While that certainly wasn't the goal, it became necessary as we continued to explore the intricacies of this complex text.  And while we strove for simplicity we could not help but yearn to explore all of the potential of its meanings…
...As we were wrapping up the rehearsals and doubts began to appear at every corner, hanging over its creators like the fatal «sword of Damocles», I knew then that it was a great idea to put «Oresteia» on Ilkhom's stage».
Mark Weil, Ilkhom Theater Artistic Director

Ladies & Gentlemen!
Now you can buy the original soundtrack to the production of «Oresteia» and enjoy its outstanding and expressive sound.
The project of «Oresteia» was initiated by Ebert Fund, and German Embassy in Uzbekistan.

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This Performance- a drama about beauty, surrounded by ever observing admirers, of art, bordering with vulgar human desires, the search for art, broken frames of morality, about strength and weakness and embracing ones self, as we are, about a difficult merger of two different cultures, vagueness of time, and revolution. In general, varying degrees of everything.
ENEYA, 13 Oktober 2006, Blog AFISHA. more>>

«ECSTASY WITH THE POMEGRANATE»

Dear friends! We publish the detailed schedule of the Ilkhom Theatre 2008 tour in the USA.
Dates of tours in Germany will be announced soon.
A tour to the USA will take place with the support of / Sponsors of the Company supported the staging of the production: Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project; a program administered by the New England Founfation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Doris Duke Charitable foundation; the Ford Foundation, the Embassy of the United States of America
Nelson Partners Corporation; RWE NUKEM Inc. ; Avialeasing

A tour in the Theaterformen Festival in Germany, in 2008 (Braunschweig, NS), , will take place with the support of the Goethe Institut, Munich and Theaterformen

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Ladies & Gentlemen!

Here we publish the plans for the 32nd season of Ilkhom Theatre made by Mark Weil and sent to us from Seattle in early July.  We sincerely hope that with our determination and your continuous support, none of the plans made by Mark Weil will have to be altered in any way.
We wish to assure you that HIS THEATER will exist for more than one season.  In addition to providing us with a highly detailed schedule for the 32nd season, He also left us with general plans for the 33rd Season as well as project ideas for several years following.  We intend to follow through with all of his plans and ideas, as we understand that to best serve His Memory is to continue His work, to justify His hopes and dreams and to live up to the expectations and work ethics he instilled in our characters.

We will keep His productions alive and His spirit will always remain inside of us.
With the passing of Mark Yakovlevich, the existence of His Theater will not cease.  This is how He brought us up, His pupils: to continue to serve Art despite any misfortunes or hardships that may occur.
We will continue to work just as He would want us to – today and always.

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The Ilkhom Award» was founded in 2007 by the Ilkhom Theater and remained within the framework of the Theater. In autumn of 2007 «The Ilkhom Award» was named after Mark Weil.
This theater season Mark Weil planed to develop the Award as a project crossing the borders of one theater and covering different types and genres of the art. According to His idea, the Award would have become an annual forum, where community of Uzbekistan could mark the most outstanding achievements in the sphere of culture, art and mass media. One of the most important components of the forum became freedom from political and market demand-supply situation. Being a social and non-commercial forum, the Prize will mark works in the sphere of culture, art and mass media for its real artistic and social significance.
This theater season Mark Weil planed to develop the Award as a project crossing the borders of one theater and covering different types and genres of the art. Famous actors, directors, composers and artists will consist of the Jury of «The Mark Weil’s Ilkhom Prize».
March 1, 2008 an award ceremony of the Award will become a culmination.

«COSCOM» company - The  General Sponsor of the «THE ILKHOM AWARD»

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Mark Weil usually tried to spend his birthday with his family in Seattle, WA.  Sometimes he met his birthday journeying between Seattle and Tashkent.  On the rare occasion that he happened to be in Tashkent, he would always celebrate his birthday with great modesty.  His home would only be visited by those who came of their own accord to present him with a gift… It was impossible to persuade him to celebrate his 50th or 55th jubilee publicly or colorfully  – it was not his style :-).
This year we decided to follow this tradition and not organize any pompous evening of magnificent speeches or fanfares.  Not only because there has been such little time between grief and celebration, but because we felt it more appropriate if this evening was celebrated in the style of «Ilkhom» – lightly and poetically.  For our memory of him and our sorrow for his loss burn bright and always will.  He shared his light with us all of His life. 
Our intention is to merely present our gifts to our Master. We will read His poems and poems dedicated to Him. We will sing His songs and songs dedicated to Him. We will perform passages and sketches from the productions created by him, including the Christmas evenings. 
And surely enough, we will present some surprises as well!

At support of Embassy of the USA in Uzbekistan
On the program:
6 February – a stage impromptu of the play «Chekhov in Yalta» by John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow (Photo by Timur Karpov)
7 February – a production based on plays of the classic of American drama Edward Albee «The Zoo Story» and «Three Tall Women»
8 February – show of the film «City Lights» by Charlie Chaplin; music by Charlie Chaplin will be performed by «The Omnibus» Ensemble
9 February – the program will be concluded with the longstanding hit of the Theater repertoire – a musical «Tortilla Flat» based on the novel by John Steinbeck. On 9 February this production will be shown on the stage of the Ilkhom Theater for 250th time!

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With the support of the Russian Federation Embassy in Uzbekistan, the Russian Cultural Center, the Mark Weil’s Ilkhom Theater, the Musical and poetical salon in the museum of the Sergey Esenin
23 March – The Opening of the Festival: a solo concert of Olga Volodina, the Honored artist of Uzbekistan
24 March – A solo concert of Georgiy Dmitriev, the Grand Prix laureate of the IX Andrey Mironov’s contest of the actor’s song
25 March – The Opening of the 1st Kurkmas Mukhitdinov Contest of the actor’s song. The sortition. The 1st round of the contest.    
26 March – The 2nd round of the contest.    
27 March – The International Day of Theater. The closing ceremony of the Festival: a gala concert of laureates and participants of the Festival.
Students of theater schools and institutes of higher education studying on speciality of “Actor of theater and cinema» and actors of drama theaters in Tashkent are welcome to participate in the contest.
The winner of the contest Grand Prix will be awarded a trip to Moscow for participation in the X Andrey Mironov’s contest of the actor’s song, which will take place in 2009. 

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On October 21, 2007, Mark Weil and the Ilkhom Theatre were awarded with «Le Prix Paris-Europa» in Paris, France.  «Le Prix Paris-Europa» includes an original trophy, which symbolizes Europe and the aim to promote, support, and award most significant projects in the sphere of theater, art, and culture as a whole.  In addition to the trophy this recognition aspires to initiate cultural exchange and collaborative work between France, and Eastern and Western Europe.
This year the jury consisted of Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu, Pierre de Tregomain, Anne Madelain, Nicolas Pétrovitch, Nathalie Vimeux, and headed by Anne-Marie Autissier. The prize on behalf of Mark Weil and the Ilkhom Theatre was received by Maxim Tumenev, an International Affairs Assistant and actor of the Company.
«Le Prix Paris-Europa» was awarded to the Laureate on October 28, 2007 in Paris, during a Memoriam Night dedicated to Mark Weil.
Read an article regarding this event (in French): http://www.mouvement.net/site.php?rub=2&id=d35d5a85de63b229
Listen to the radio interview (France Culture) here:
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/sur_scenes/index.php

We thank Anastasia Leliukh for a name educational grant for one of the students of the Mark Weil’s Ilkhom Theater School of Drama, who will be selected by the Teachers Council.
Anastasia is an old friend of the Theater. She has been given repeatedly a financial support according to her possibilities. We also thank her for translations, which she is making for English part of our web site.
Thank you, Nastya!