Ilkhom Theatre (Ильхом Театр Марка Вайля) is a

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

company based in

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. Founded by Mark Weil (Марк Яковлевич Вайль) in 1976, it was the first independent theatre in the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

, 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 ''

The Oresteia The ''Oresteia'' () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of ...

''; 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

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*http://www.ilkhom.com Theatre in the Soviet Union Theatres in Uzbekistan {{Uzbekistan-struct-stub

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