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THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

Photo: Michał Grocholski

Based on the Novel of Mikhail Bulgakov

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

Is there a place for Satan in the world without God?
Woland and his mysterious entourage arrive in 1930s Soviet Russia. To a world full of oppression, where a metaphysical trade with the Devil seems the only real chance to regain freedom. Nothing is for free, just as nothing is given to man once and for all. How will our modern reality look at itself in ‘The Master and Margarita’? In a novel whose power of imagination becomes a tunnel to philosophical reflections interspersed with the element of festivity?

A masterpiece of world literature staged by Janusz Opryński allows us to rediscover the appealing complexity of the Mikhail Bulgakov’s world. A world in which light cannot exist without darkness, just as good cannot be born without evil.

“”WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?” YOU ASK. I DON'T KNOW. YOU WILL PROBABLY HIDE IT IN YOUR DESK OR WARDROBE, WHERE MY DESTROYED PLAYS LIE, AND OCCASIONALLY MENTION IT.”

– Mikhail Bulgakov on his novel just before his death
in a letter to his third wife Yelena Sergeyevna Shilovskaya

Premiere

27th september 2019

Scene

The large stage

Duration

130 MINS (no interval)

suggested age

+16

Please note: There are scenes of nudity in the play, and chemicals are smoked on stage.

UPCOMING EVENTS

15.11 / friDAY

11.00am

“The Opole proposal is faithful to the original and does not consist in reducing time plans or threads, but it is a two-hour gallop through the novel. At the level of interpretation, however, there was interesting shifts of accents – the director is less interested in love story, but more about the story of freedom and Nietzsche’s world order.”

Wiktoria Formella, e-teatr.pl

“Janusz Opryński’s performance is faithful to the novel and the spirit of the theater, which still has its place in Poland and its longing audience. It is a theater of psychological acting and unconventional scenography, on the JKT stage built with meticulousness and finesse by Jerzy Rudzki. It is theater in which the actor identifies with the character and the viewer feels drawn into the vortex of events and does not look for references to modern times in literal hints, only in the author’s metaphors. After all, it is an effective and delightful theater.”

Kamila Łapicka, zteatru.pl 

“Opryński managed to launch very broad plans in the style of Fellini or Sorrentino. Circus art, rock, philosophical literature and theater as such. The show is spinning. Excellent music, mappings, several brilliant scenes – all this makes you breathtaking.”

Janusz Palikot, palikot.pl  

„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.

Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl

„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.

Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl

awards and festivals

„The Best 2019/2020” ranking of „Theatre” monthly magazine

  • Distinction for Janusz Opryński in the category Best Direction
  • Distinction for Magdalena Maścianica in the category Best Female Role
  • Distinction in the category Best Theatrical Adaptation

Festival – 25th International Theatre Confrontations Festival (2020)

creators

Adaptation and Direction

Janusz Opryński

Set Design

Jerzy Rudzki

Music

Rafał Rozmus

Visualisations, Set Design Projection 

Aleksander Janas / kilku.com

Visualisations

Paweł Szarzyński / kilku.com

Script Translation

Leokadia Przebinda

Adaptacja i reżyseria

Janusz Opryński

Script Translation

Igor Przebinda

Script Translation

Grzegorz Przebinda

Scenografia

Jerzy Rudzki

Script Translation
Leokadia Przebinda
Grzegorz Przebinda
Igor Przebinda

Stage Coordinator
Urszula Kraska

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

Reżyseria
Jędrzej Wielecki

cast

Magdalena Maścianica

Małgorzata

Karolina Kuklińska

Behemot

Monika Stanek

Hella

Beata Wnęk-Malec

Frida / Semplejarowa

Andrzej Jakubczyk

Piłat / Professor Strawiński

Konrad Wosik

Master / Jeszua Ha No-cri

Rafał Kronenberger

Woland

Leszek Malec

Berlioz / Bengalski

Radomir Rospondek

Korowiew / Fagot

Kacper Sasin

Azazello

Artur Paczesny (guest)

Iwan Bezdomny / Mateusz Lewi

Bartosz Dziedzic

Arkadiusz Semplejarow

Michał Świtała

Arkadiusz Semplejarow / Stiepan Lichodiejew / Nikanor Iwanowicz Bosy / Afraniusz

  

  

with

  

  

Martyna Pytel / Maria Szczypkowska

  

Jakub Bałdych / Grzegorz Hoffmann

  

Michał Głos

The “Margaret’s Song” was performed by Katarzyna Osipuk

Kacper Sasin

Kacper Sasin

Kacper Sasin

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