The new theatre season
August is traditionally the month in which most theaters present the new season. For us, it is the period in which we are looking for the new adaptations of The Master and Margarita. And the harvest for the 2017-2018 season can be considered as rich, including four different new adaptations of the novel in Germany. We can't say much yet about the quality of the productions.
he United States
On August 18, 2017, the Russian Arts Theater and Studio presents the premiere of Master and Margarita, or the Devil Comes To Moscow at the West End Theater in New York. It is the famous adaptation of Jean Claude Van Itallie, directed by Aleksey Burago. If you want to be there, you'll have to rush, because the first nine performances are already sold out..
West End Theater, New York
On the other side of the United States, in Seattle, the Theater Simple organizes the Mash up! event on September 6, 2017. This event at the local Act Theater will include a sneak peek of their adaptation of The Master and Margarita, which will be representend in 2018, directed by Rachel Katz Carey. The also hope to make a tour with it.
Germany
Until September 3, 2017, the traveling theater Kulturmobil is touring in Niederbayern to play Der Meister und Margarita by Konstantin Moreth in different places. After that, Moreth presents his work at the Stadttheater in Landsberg, where it will premiere on October 7, 2017.
Stadttheater, Landsberg
On 19 September 2017, a new adaptation by Andrej Woron will be presented at the Konstanz Theater. The tickets for the premiere will be available on September 14, 2017. Woron had already directed Der Meister und Margarita at the Goethe Theater in 2002.
Theater Konstanz
From January 27, 2018 on, the Theater im Stadthaus in Rudolstadt presents a series of performances of Der Meister und Margarita adapted by the Swedish author and dramatist Niklas Rådström, who has already been successful with it at the Swedish National Theater Dramaten in Stockholm in 2014.
Theater im Stadthaus, Rudolstadt
Finally, on March 17, 2018, you can go to the premiere of Der Meister und Margarita in an adaptation by Malte Kreutzfeldt at the Municipal Theater in Chemnitz.
France
An interesting initiative we found in France, where the Compagnie Pour ainsi dire from Paris has made Le Chat n'a que faire des souris mortes, a spectacle for children intended as a subtle exploration of good and evil, temptation and desire for freedom , Based on Faust and The Master and Margarita. From November 2017, they travel throughout France to bring their story to schools, theatres and cultural centers.
Poland
Poland is, after Russia, the country with the highest number of different theater adaptations of The Master and Margarita. By the way, Poland was also the first country, long before Russia, where stage adaptations of The Master and Margarita were created. Most of the theatres wth the play on the repertoire are having it for a long time.
Next season, we can expect representations in a dozen theaters, like the Theatre Capitol and Theatre Rampa in Warsaw, the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Lublin and the Teatr Groteska in Kraków. A special mention is certainly worth the puppet theatre Teatr Lalek Arlekin in Łódź, which is planning three representations per month of Mistrz i Małgorzata, directed by Waldemar Wolański, starting on October 27, 2017.
Teatr Lalek Arlekin, Łódź
The Russian classics
The Moscow Art Theater Chekhov, for which Bulgakov wrote most of his theatre plays, resumes the performances of The Master and Margarita by Janos Szasz from September 13, 2017. One day later, the Theater Art Studio, which made a marked entrance last season, starts a new series of its adaptation by Sergey Zhenovach. Shortly thereafter, on September 16, 2017, the famous Taganka Theater starts the 40th season of its highly esteemed representations of Yuri Lyubimov's adaptation.
Chekhov Art Theatre, Moscow
Theater Art Studio, Moscow
Taganka Theater, Moscow
One of the most frequently performed stage versions of The Master and Margarita has been made by Valery Belyakovich, who died last year. His adaptation will be back in the next season on the podiums of the Moscow Art Theater Gorky, the Theatre South West and the Moscow Independent Theatre, which also wil perform guest appearances in other cities. This time they also cross the boundaries, including a representation at the Logan Hall in London on September 30, 2017.
Roman Vyktyuk resumes his play called The Dreams of Ivan Bezdomny on September 24, 2016 in his own theatre in Moscow. Later, he will be touring again with it. Just like Sergey Aldonin, who plays the role of Woland in his own adaptation. Aldonin is also the home supplier of the representations of The Master and Margarita at the Bulgakov House in Moscow, the next one being on August 28, 2017.
Bulgakov House, Moscow
The version of Master i Margarita represented by the Masterskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg is so long that it is spread over two evenings. The play is directed by Grigory Kozlov. On September 21, 2017, you can see the first part, and the next day the second part will follow. Still in Saint Petersburg, the Baltic House starts the 15th season of the piece on September 17, 2017.
Furthermore, you can see the adaptations by Vyacheslav Vittikh at the Regional Drama Theatre in Kaliningrad, from October 15, 2017 on, and by Grigory Lifanov at the Sverdlovsky Drama Theatre in Yekaterinburg from August 30, 2017 on.
Other countries
On September 29, 2017, the Teater Viirus in Helsingfors, Finland, presents the premiere of Mästaren och Margarita, directed by Egill Pálsson. This series of representations will be subtitled in English.
Teater Viirus, Helsingfors
In the Czech Republic, the Moravské Divadlo in Olomouc resumes its adaptation of Mistr a Markétka directed by Bogdan Kokotek on September 19, 2017. In Lithuania, the National Drama Theater in Vilnius does the same on 7 November 2017 with the famous Mister Ir Margarita version of director Oskaras Koršunovas. And the Theaterstudio Kinoaktera in Minsk, Belarus, is resumes the representations directed by Oleg Kireev on September 25, 2017..
Practical information
All information on dates and tickets for theaters where you can see adaptations of The Master and Margarita can be found on a special Events page which we update daily. On this page you will find not only everything you want to know about The Master and Margarita, but also about other adaptations of works by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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