The Master and Margarita at Göta Lejon

Drama

Authors

• Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita is called "one of the masterpieces of the 20th century" by The Times of London. Edward Kemp's adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's landmark satirical novel is a phantasmagorical ride through Stalinist Russia. The Master, a playwright trying desperately to get his script about Jesus and Pontius Pilate produced, fights with theatre critics and cultural commissars at every turn. He is driven to a despair so deep that not even his lover, Margarita, can reach him. Into the middle of this bleak picture steps the shabby aristocrat Professor Woland, a specialist in black magic, and his unwholesome entourage (including a talking cat).