Theatre fragments

The Master and Margarita on stage

Theatre adaptations

A simple search on Google shows us that in the last five years there have been at least a hundred theatre companies worldwide which presented an adaptation of The Master and Margarita. Which is not obvious for such a complex novel with three story lines, and so many different characters and fantastic scenes.

When, in spite of this, so many people make the effort and take the risk, and not only in Russia, it should tell us something on the impact of the novel.

Theatres

In the section Adaptations of this website we try to bring a complete inventory of all the theater adaptations of The Master and Margarita from all over the world. This inventory starts with the very first adaptation of director Danuta Michałowska at the Theatre Estrada in Krakow, Poland, on June 26, 1971, and is still constantly being updated.