Michail Bulgakow (1891 – 1940) knew what it meant to be humiliated as a writer, as he was persecuted and harassed by Stalinist bureaucracy and censorship. Until his death, Bulgakow worked on his great novel of revenge – for the drawer (or Stalin as its only reader), without any hope of publication within his lifetime. It wasn’t until 1966 that the novel was published, in a censored version. Since then it has been seen as a piece of world literature. It is the devil himself who in this novel, representing the author, takes his revenge for the disgrace suffered and, together with his cronies, comes to Moscow to turn the profane and bureaucratic life there into a murderous nightmare. Bulgakow’s novel is commonly viewed as a satire on the disintegrating society of Russia under Stalinist rule. This might be too short sighted. Here, the disintegration of reality itself becomes the topic, not as a satirical gimmick, but in all seriousness.
With: Kathrin Angerer, Hendrik Arnst, Rosalind Baffoe, Marc Hosemann, Henry Hübchen, Michael Klobe, Kurt Naumann, Milan Peschel, Irina Potapenko, Bernhard Schütz, Joachim Tomaschewsky, Martin Wuttke and Sir Henry
Director and adaption: Frank Castorf
Stage design and costumes: Bert Neumann
Soundtrack: Sir Henry
Dramaturgy: Carl Hegemann
Video: Jan Speckenbach, Jörg Broksch
Light design: Lothar Baumgarte
Koproduktion mit den Wiener Festwochen
With: Kathrin Angerer, Hendrik Arnst, Rosalind Baffoe, Marc Hosemann, Henry Hübchen, Joy Kristin Kalu, Michael Klobe, Kurt Naumann Skubowius, Milan Peschel, Irina Potapenko, Bernhard Schütz, Joachim Tomaschewsky, Martin Wuttke and Sir Henry
Director: Frank Castorf
Stage and Costumes Supplier: Bert Neumann
Music: Sir Henry
Dramaturgy: Carl Hegemann
Video: Jan Speckenbach, Jörg Broksch
Light Design: Lothar Baumgarte
