 MARK WEIL IS KILLED
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The Ilkhom Theatre is surviving great grief. On the night of September 6, 2007, Mr. Mark Weil, the Artistic Director of the Ilkhom Theatre - was killed. The accident happened around 11:10 p.m. when Mark Weil was coming home from the final rehearsal of "Oresteia" by Aeschylus, due to premier the following night at the Opening of the Ilkhom Theatre's 32nd Season. Mr. Mark Weil was attacked by two unknown males just as he was entering the Tashkent apartment building where he lived. He was hit on the head with a glass bottle and stabbed in the stomach with a knife; the men who attacked him immediately fled the scene. Mr. Mark Weil was taken to a local Tashkent hospital by emergency services where, after a long struggle for his life, the doctors could not save his life.
Master Mark Weil died around 2:00 am on September 7, 2007.
His last words were: «I'm opening a new season tomorrow, no matter what happens…»
The Ilkhom Theatre Ensemble and Staff are continuing the life of the company in memory of its founder and leader Master Mark Weil and count on your support and cooperation.
In deep grief, The Ilkhom Theatre Ensemble and Staff.
The Opening of the 32nd Theatre Season and the Premiere of «Oresteia» - the last work of director Mark Weil - WILL BE HELD AS SCHEDULED! All ideas initiated by Mark Weil WILL BE REALIZED in the 32nd Theatre Season.
Links to articles about the death of Mark Weil:
http://www.stan.kg/news/3160
http://www.stan.kg/news/3161
Here's a site where you can hear the programme about next Sunday's memorial service in Paris:
https://www.mailbigfile.com/efa14c92d1ac911eb1c00611f4054e27/listFiles.php
Links to an article devoted in memory of Mark Weil with audio fragments
of his Hanover interview:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2775852,00.html
http://www.dw-world.de/centralasia
Last interview with Mark Weil:
http://www.ilkhom.com/english/news//article/89
Last video interview with Mark Weil taped for a Moscow TV Channel
"Culture" on August 20, 2007.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K45y3XmbiZw
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Dear Friends!
Members of Mark Weil's family – spouse and daughters, sisters, relatives, friends, the Ilkhom Theater and all His pupils express their immense gratitude and appreciation for the invaluable help and support granted by all of you living in Uzbekistan, Russia, USA, Germany, France, Australia, Holland, etc…during these very dark and difficult days.
Our mutual grief for the loss of Mark Weil - an extraordinary, talented, and genius person - has brought us all together.
Nobody can ever take that away from us.
We are forever bound by His love and His belief in us.
We will remember…
Special thanks to:
Gulya and Dima Daminovs
Bradford Henson
Shelby Leg
Andrey Erstekis
Nasir Mirsultanov
Gulnara Tursunova
Natalia Musina
Andrey Afanasiev
Daniil Kislov
Yuriy Kaplun
Javdat Akhmedjanov
Viktor Gusev
Marina Smelyanskaya
Roman Doljanskiy
Marina Raiykina
We would also like to thank our audiences and fans of all generations, living in different countries all over the world.
Embassies of:
Israel
United States of America
Russian Federation
Switzerland
Embassy of Uzbekistan in Moscow
Organizations:
The Moscow House of Compatriots
GOH Productions, New York and personally to Bonnie Stein
The Tashkent-Seattle Sister City Association
The Uzbekistan Culture & Art Forum Fund
The Japan Fund and personally to Ms. Yuki Hata and Akiko Kavano
Washington University in Seattle and personally to Mark Jenkins, Sarah Nash Gates and Katie Holiday
The Goethe Institut Uzbekistan and personally to Dr. Kristina Günter
The “Rosbalt” Agency and personally to Yuliya Netesova
The British Council in Uzbekistan and personally to Jeremy Jacobson
The Swiss Cooperation Office in Uzbekistan and personally to Barno Turgunova
Departments of the Friedrich Ebert Fund in Uzbekistan and Russian Federation and personally to Dr. Wulf Lapins
Colleagues and Friends:
The Culture and Cinematography Agency of Russian Federation and personally to Mikhail Shvydkoy
The Union of the Theater Representatives of Russian Federation and personally to Alexander Kalyagin
The Center of Compatriots Support and personally to Natalia Staroselskaya
The Moscow Theatre of Young Spectators and personally to Genrietta Yanovskaya and Kama Ginkas
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theater and personally to Oleg Tabakov
The Moscow Theater of Nations
The Meyerhold Center and personally to Pavel Rudnev
The Theaterformen Festival (Hanover) and personally to Stefan Schmidtke
The New York H-Art Management full-service agency for touring performing arts companies and personally to Harold Norris, Director
The Samara Drama Theater and personally to Vyacheslav Gvozdkov, Director
The Drama Theater of Lithuania
The Kashkadariya Musical Theater
The Mossovet Theater
The Uzbekistan Theater of Youth
ARDTU
The Bishkek Theater of Russian Drama
The Moscow TV Channel “Culture” and personally to Tatyana Paukhova and the whole creative team of the channel
The Human Wear Gallery and personally to Lola Saify
The Tashkent Puppet Theater
The Tashkent Operetta Theater
The Caravan Art-Gallery
The Bazelevs Film Company and personally to Timur Bekmambetov
Richard D’Ari
Petr Weil
Natalia Kuzmina
Akio Kavata
Actress Komaki Kurihara
Reinhard and Penelope Krumm
Mikhail Rozenblum
Alain Deletroz
Marina Davydova
Valeriya Pankrashina
Pavel Podkladov
William Alexandrov
Skirball Cultural Center Los-Angeles
ArtiSHOCK Theater in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Mary Ann DeVlieg IETM
Tom Godwin, Blow Up Theater, London
Mikhail Rudnitskiy
Danila Korogodskiy
Choreograph David Rousseve
Choreograph Peter Kyle
Linn Kable
The Israel Festival and personally to Yossi Tal-Gan
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS and personally to Kenneth Foster and Angela Mattox
The ACT Theater, Seattle, and personally to Kurt Beattie
The Complicite Theater and personally to Simon and Gerard McBurney
The Home Theater and personally to Mike Gordon
The National State Theater of Russian Drama troupe of Kyrgyz Republic
Dmitriy Korobkin
The Barbican Center and personally to Luisa Jeffrey
Rosanna and Michael Moore
The Lincoln Center Festival, New York, and personally to Nigel Redden, Director
Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen and personally to Hansgünther Heyme, Director
The Karbe family from Germany
The Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre, Japan, and personally to Kazuyoshi KUSHIDA, Director
Boris Petrik
Simon and Charles Tordjman and Jean-Pierre Thibaudat
Thomas Kuntz
Olga Gubenko
Dramatist Semen Zlotnikov
Farewell applause to the Master (photos by Alexander Raevskiy from the Memorial Ceremony with Mark Weil)
The Last day with the Master (photos by Artur Konovalov and Dilora Kabilova from the Memorial Ceremony with Mark Weil)
The Farewell forever… (photos by Ernest Kurtveliev from the Memorial Ceremony with Mark Weil)
The Farewell with the Master in Moscow (photos by Larisa Pankratova, Irina Minina and our friends)
The Farewell (photos by Ivan Silaniev/Seatlle, September 23, 2007)
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