The Master & Margarita,
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Evening Performances:
Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th and Friday 12th March,
PAC 7:30 p.m.

To reserve tickets please complete the booking form and return to school with payment. Ticket reservations may also be made via School Reception, tel: 01342 710200

You are warmly invited to Worth's production of the extraordinary satirical masterpiece by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita.

The first night of this remarkable stage adaptation of the multi-layered novel coincides with the 70th anniversary of Bulgakov’s death.

A writer struggles against the Soviet literary authorities to realise his vision of a play about Pontius Pilate while the Procurator of a city named Yershalaim, struggles with his guilt, having sent a vagrant philosopher to his death.

Two soviet writers encounter a stranger in a Moscow park who will make them question what they believe to be true; a despairing woman waits for a stranger with a bunch of yellow flowers by the water at Patriarch’s ponds.

During a year when he faced near-starvation, Bulgakov wrote to the government to request either to be able to leave the country or to be given a job; this letter resulted in a personal phone call from Stalin and a post as an assistant director at the Moscow Arts Theatre. This position would bring frustration and annoyance with the authorities for six tiresome years, but in that same year he would take up the story of the novel that would become The Master and Margarita. The manuscript would be burned in an early form and concealed until its first publication in 1967.

Bulgakov’s own feelings of fear and resentment at a time of disappearances and his guilt at having made accommodations with a dictator, are worked into this extraordinary story.