The Master and Margarita

One of my favorite books! The Bortko series was a hit:smile12:, nothing caused any rejection. Even Bezrukov, after his previous roles, was quite good here: Yeshua should at least seem a little crazy - the actor managed to portray the smile of a kind idiot:D! I also wanted to share my opinion about one play (sometimes Muscovites come even to our backwater:cool:). To be honest, I've been to the theater very, very few times:(, I'm more familiar with this art form through televised broadcasts. But here I had the opportunity to see such a wonder live. I won't say the exact name of the theater (it seems to be some kind of "New" one), unfortunately, I also won't name the director - I'm still not a big theatergoer: THEATER and that's it:o! What I definitely remember: Ivar Kalnysh played Pilate, and Olga Kryukova played Margarita (these are the names that are more or less well-known - I didn't remember the rest...). The curtain rises, and I am unpleasantly surprised by what seems to me to be the absurdity of the scenery and some kind of "musical" introduction. The scenery is so poor that I'll try to describe it in its entirety: in the background there is a "banner" of the "Lenin Mental Hospital" with a pseudo-Leninist "motto": "get treated! get treated! and get treated again!"; on both sides of these inscriptions are painted architectural columns in a classical style; a chair covered with a blue cloak with a skull on top stands a little closer to the stage; a stove and a bench on the right and left complete the simple stage setting, which did not change throughout the performance:D! But later, the actors' performance and some clever directorial decisions completely corrected the initial negative impression. Here are some "highlights" of the production: - one actor usually played several characters (Behemoth-Berlioz-Kafa:eek:, Master-Yeshua, for example) - I understand that this may be because "not everyone could be brought in," but it turned out to be very organic and unconventional; - interesting Gela and Bezdomny (although the director clearly amplified their roles compared to those they had in the book); - the satirical element still prevailed, but it did not overshadow the themes of love in "Master and Margarita" and the novel about Pilate; - Voland was definitely younger than Basilashvili: with black hair and a ponytail, overall phlegmatic, as befits a true Voland:) , but once he even did this -:smile44: (it seemed like it was an improvisation - but it didn't spoil the impression); - the death of Berlioz was shown grotesquely, and the directors did a good job in the situations with Margarita's flight and the Grand Ball at the Full Moon. In the end, in 2.5 hours, to my great surprise, I realized that the novel was retold in theatrical language with almost no omissions. :smile12: A telling moment was that my girlfriend, who, not because of cultural backwardness, but due to lack of time, had not yet become acquainted with the great novel (in 11th grade, she had an economic focus - there was no literature), also spoke about this performance with enthusiasm, and she doesn't really like the theater (but she reads a lot of good literature). P.S. I apologize if it's too "long" and not quite on topic...