Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

Photo: Tiberiu Marta

Drama of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor / Drama SNG Maribor

Original title Mactep и Mapгapиta

Première 25. 1. 2013 Old Hall, SNG Maribor

Running time 3 hours and 15 minutes with one interval

Director Janusz Kica
Author of dramatisation and dramaturg Goran Ferčec
Translator of dramatisation Metka Damjan
Set Designers Ivana Radenović, Numen
Costume Designer Alan Hranitelj
Composer Arturo Annecchino
Choreographer Valentina Turcu
Language Consultant Janez Bostič
Lighting Designer Tomaž Bezjak
Make-up Designer Mirjana Djordjević
Music Recording Collaborator Bojan Hinteregger

Cast
The Master, Bulgakov, Yeshua Branko Jordan
Margarita Nataša Matjašec Rošker
Woland, Afrany Aleš Valič as guest
Behemoth, Khaifa Nejc Ropret
Korovyev, Dr. Stravinsky, Stalin Vladimir Vlaškalić
Pontius Pilate, Berlioz Peter Boštjančič
Bezdomny, Levi Mathew Matija Stipanič
Azazello, Judah Matevž Biber
Hella, Praskovya Mateja Pucko
Apartment No. 50 in Garden Street, Poprikhin, Bosoy Davor Herga
Steersman Georges, Girl, M. Jacques' Wife Eva Kraš
Glukharev, Rimsky, Monsieur Jacques Kristijan Ostanek
Beskhudnikov, Likhodeyev Miloš Battelino
Dvubratska, Ana Richardovna Maša Žilavec
Ababkova, Varenukha, Frida, Girl Mirjana Šajinović
Doorman, Postwoman Irena Mihelič
Archibald Archibaldovich, Bengalsky, Count Robert Zvone Funda
Zagrivov, Marquise Viktor Meglič

Berlioz, the editor of an art magazine, who is disclosing an atheist thesis on the invented myth built around Jesus Christ in a chat with his friend the poet Bezdomny, is opposed by Satan in the appearance of Professor Woland who claims that Jesus has lived just as certainly as Berlioz is about to lose his head that day. As the prophecy is fulfilled, Bezdomny sets off to search for Woland and his assistants but they all disappear. Bezdomny is put into an asylum where the Master has found refuge in front of persecutions because of the novel he has written on Pilates meeting Christ. In the real world he has abandoned his beloved Margarita. Eager to meet the Master again, Margarita accepts Satan’s invitation to be the hostess of his witches’ ball. As Margarita proves to be an outstanding witches’ hostess, Woland makes her wish come true, and as "manuscripts don’t burn”, he returns to the Master his lost novel and enables the lovers to live a new life. The Master and Margarita is a performance that reminds us that the only possible way out of political repression is the endlessness of artistic fantasy.