Underground Counterculture in Tashkent: The First Independent Theatre in the Soviet Union
Lucas Fraser-Taliente It’s a Wednesday night in the centre of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The darkness of the small wooden stage in front of me is disturbed only by the faint blue glow of the supertitle screens. A soft white gleam emerges to illuminate the entrance of our young protagonist, Makhzum. His father, a stiff and bespectacled…