What it means to be an artist in a totalitarian state: The brutal enemy of intelligence, research, free speech and artistic work
Performing in Central Asia’s first independent theatre, I learned about the internationally acclaimed director Mark Weil and about his tragic fate.
2 min readJul 31, 2022
Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent / Uzbekistan was founded in 1976 and had been directed since the beginning by internationally acclaimed theatre director Mark Weil.
The Soviet…