New theatre season
The summer is halfway, so traditionally the theatre companies start to announce their programmes for the coming season. Again, there are quite some new productions which have found their inspiration in The Master and Margarita, and some of the successful productions of the past season are being renewed.
France
In the past season, France had one of the highest-rated stage adaptations of Le maître et Marguerite ever. The Théâtre de la Tempête got very good reviews everywhere. After a successful series of 47 performances in Paris and Avignon, their adaptation, directed by Igor Mendjisky, will now start a tour of France with representations in Calais, Nantes and Châtillon, and others are expected.
Théâtre de la Tempête
Finland
In the previous season, two stage adaptations of The Master and Margarita premiered in Helsinki, Finland. The Theater Viirus had 25 performances with the piece Mästaren och Margarita directed by Egill Pálsson, and the Finnish National Theatre even played twice as many representations with the piece Mestari ja Margarita directed by Anne Rautiainen. The latter now follow the line, and a new series of performances starts again on September 22, 2018.
Finnish National Theatre
Germany
last season, no less than 7 different German language stage adaptations of The Master and Margarita toured through Germany and Switzerland. Some of them will continue the success of the previous season. On 10 March 2019, the company of the Rudolstadt Theatre starts a series of performances of Der Meister und Margarita, directed by Niklas Rådström, in the Landestheater in Eisenach, and in the Stadstheater of Chemnitz you can watch some more representations of the production made by Malte Kreutzfeldt.
In addition, there is another adaptation, written and directed by playwright Zara Antonyan, which will be represented in the Theatre Krefeld und Mönchengladbach from September 2, 2018 on.
Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach
Italy
In Italy, many people are looking forward to a new theater adaptation of Il maestro e Margherita made by Letizia Russo, which will be directed by Andrea Baracco for the Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria in Perugia. More than 50 performances have already been booked in various places like Solomeo, Venice, Bari and Rome.
Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria
Belgium
In Antwerp, Jo Roets and Greet Vissers have made a stage adaption of the novel for a co-production of the theatre companies Laika and Theatre FroeFroe, which will have its premiere at the Arenberg Theatre in Antwerp on October 20, 2018, and which will tour around Flanders for a series of about thirty performances.
Laika and Theatre FroeFroe
United Kingdom
In London, Viktor Sobchak has reviewed his adaptation of The Master and Margarita from 2016 to a new look. The piece will be performed at The Cockpit Theatre from October 31, 2018. It will be performed in Russian with English captions.
United States
The Constellation Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company from Washington, D.C. They will bring Edward Kemp's famous English theatre adaptation, directed by Allison Arkell Stockman, at the local Source Theatre. Their series of representations starts with a Pay-What-You-Can preview on February 1, 2019.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the United States, the Theatre Simple from Seattle is still trying to raise funds for a new series of representations of their stage adaptation from 1997, which was directed by Rachel Katz Carey. The piece was rewarded as the best piece at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia in 1998.
Other countries
Of course, the classics also continue to exist. Especially in Russia and Poland, The Master and Margarita has been a regular part of numerous repertoires for years. At the Taganka Theatre in Moscow, for example, the adaptation of the late Yuri Lyubimov will start its 43rd season on September 25, 2018.
Practical details
In the section Adaptations of this website you will find a fairly complete overview of all stage editions of The Master and Margarita which have been screened worldwide or which are going to be screened.
You can find all necessary practical details about the upcoming stage editions under the Events tab of our Facebook page.
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