The Master and Margarita

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An adaptation of the classic novel by Mikhail Bulgakov in which the devil pays a visit to 1930’s Moscow.

A Complicité co-production with the Barbican, London, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Wiener Festwochen, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and Festival d’Avignon in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.

“An extraordinary and thrilling production” The Telegraph

“This is a wild, strange evening…it yields great riches. Simon McBurney’s Complicite has done it again.” The Times

“A dazzling and penetrating evening” The Independent

“…McBurney matches Bulgakov’s literary achievement, toe-to-toe, with a theatrical one. He is surely one of our most powerful contemporary myth-makers.” New Statesman

“The best ensemble playing you will ever see” Wall Street Journal

“The Master and Margarita is masterly…[a] phenomenal production” The Observer

Time Out

City AM

Evening Standard

Dates

Plymouth 17 - 19 November 2011

Luxembourg 15 - 16 December 2011

Barbican, London 15 March - 7 April 2012

Festival de Otoño en Primavera, Madrid 13 - 15 May 2012

Wiener Festwochen 1 - 4 June 2012

Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 13 - 16 June 2012

Holland Festival 21 - 23 June 2012

Festival D'Avignon 7 - 16 July 2012

Grec Festival, Barcelona 25 - 28 July 2012

Barbican, London 14 December 2012 - 19 January 2013

MC93 Bobigny, Paris 2 - 9 February 2013

People

Creative Team

Directed by
Simon McBurney
Text by
Simon McBurney, Edward Kemp, The Company
Associate directors
Catherine Alexander & James Yeatman
Assistant director
Sasha Milavic Davies
Set design
Es Devlin
Costume
Christina Cunningham
Lighting
Paul Anderson
Sound
Gareth Fry
Video
Finn Ross
3D animation
Luke Halls, (Third Company Limited)
Puppetry
Blind Summit

Cast

Original cast
David Annen, Thomas Arnold, Josie Daxter, Johannes Flaschberger, Tamzin Griffin, Amanda Hadingue, Richard Katz, Sinead Matthews, Tim McMullan, Clive Mendus, Yasuyo Mochizuki, Ajay Naidu, Henry Pettigrew, Paul Rhys, César Sarachu & Angus Wright
Revival cast
David Annen, Thomas Arnold, Josie Daxter, Johannes Flaschberger, Tamzin Griffin, Amanda Hadingue, Richard Katz, Susan Lynch, Tim McMullan, Clive Mendus, Yasuyo Mochizuki, Ajay Naidu, Paul Rhys, César Sarachu, Toby Sedgwick, Robert Luckay

Gallery

On a bare stage, multiple actors lift chairs above their heads recklessly

Two factors face each other holding their hands out with intensity, while another actor stands with a letter behind them and the rest of the cast stands close behind with their backs to them

The side of a boarded up building is projected onto the backstage, with a face appearing at the single open window

Two actors in the moment before a passionate embrace, while another actor sits behind them, watching

Four shadowy figures in the background and a skull is seen in the foreground

We see a shadowy person enlarged behind a screen, while another actor moves the screen sideways

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