The Master and Margarita

Theatre performance The Master and Margarita by Simon McBurney and Complicite, programmed in Holland Festival 2012.
After their productions A Dog’s Heart in 2010 and A Disappearing Number in 2007, Simon McBuney and his company Complicite return to the Holland Festival with their take on Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov’s novel is a magical realist fantasy about the devil descending on Stalin’s Soviet Union, a woman going to hell and back to save her lover, and Pontius Pilate discussing the nature of
human worth with Jesus Christ. It’s a sharp satire on the suffocating bureaucracy and the unbearable superficiality of modern life, as well as a daring analysis of good and evil, love, sex and spirituality. A parable which hits the mark without fail, especially in the capable hands of McBurney and co.