The Master and Margarita

The opening night: 28 September 2013 on the Big Stage, for the opening of the theatre after reconstruction
Duration: 3 h 20 min with one intermission

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This performance is a masterpiece!
Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław

A musical performance at the highest level.
Teatralia

MASTER: I hate that novel.
WOLAND: It still has some surprises for you.

At the beginning of Bulgakov’s novel the reader is given a key. This key is the quote from Goethe’s ‘Faust’, the question to Mephisto and his answer: – Who are you, after all? – I’m a part of that force that always craves evil and always creates good.

In a Moscow park, two local writers meet a foreigner who turns out to be Satan himself. For his interlocutors, this brief acquaintance will be quite an unreal and painful experience. Soon, thanks to the envoys from hell, “everything is in confusion” in tired, dull communist Moscow. Sometimes the devil arriving on earth appears to be the only righteous one.

Satan in Moscow will hold up a mirror for people, exposing their worst vices but reminding them, too, that there is a force more powerful than evil and hatred – true, faithful, eternal love. The kind of love that makes people capable of sacrifice and gives them courage against all odds. Love that has brought Margaret and the Master together.

For these two, however, the happiest end is death. Not the light, but peace, the same for which all sinners wait. For example – Pontius Pilate, the protagonist of the Master’s fateful novel, tired of his immortality, longing only for a brief talk with the ‘wandering philosopher’ Yeshua Ha-Nocri, whom he once condemned to Golgotha.

A mysterious Woman leeds us on this journey through Soviet Moscow and Jerusalem of two thousand years ago. A narrator, an empathic witness, or perhaps the maker of events? Let her remain a Bulgakov-style enigma, like the city’s imaginary topography, significant names, and intertwining eras.