The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita
A Performance of an Incomplete Novel in 4 Acts, 2 Shows, 155 Characters and 28 performers
Author – Mikhail Bulgakov
Director – Grigory Kozlov
Directing Team – Grigory Serebryany, Galina Byzgu, Marina Damineva, Vera Latysheva
First Evening
Part 1 – Vanya Bezdomny
Part 2 – The Master
Second Evening
Part 3 – Moscow and Unclean Spirits
Part 4 – Margarita
Every generation of actors at the Masterskaya Theatre has its own great novel. The Idiot, And Quiet Flows the Don… and now The Master and Margarita. Kozlov’s current batch of students, currently in their fourth and final year at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, are for the first time taking the stage in order to, over the course of two evenings, present one of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century.
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The Master and Margarita is a story about love and fear ruling the world. About those who put minds and souls into a whirlwind. About artists and poets. About a ruler who betrays one such person, and about a woman who renounces everything to save another one.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Designer – Nikolai Slobodyanik
Costume Designer – Maria Lukka
Video – Alexander Malyshev, Fyodor Sokolov
Music Selection – Vladimir Bychkovsky
Choreographer – Yuri Vasilkov
Light Designer – Dmitri Albul
Sound Engineer – Maria Belova
Vocal Coaches – Grigory Uglov, Taisiya Kalinchenko
Choirmaster – Grigory Uglov
Speech Coaches – Alla Zimina, Lyubov Alfyorova
Stage Managers – Alyona Parshina, Svetlana Povalyaeva
The production includes music by Alfred Schnittke and Anton Gorchakov
THE PRODUCTION WAS DEVISED AND IS PERFORMED BY
Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakova – Anastasia Stebneva
Taisiya Lappa – Darya Solovyova
Lyubov Belozyorskaya – Yulia Vibe, Darya Zavyalova
The Master – Mikhail Gavrilov, Yuri Nasonov
Margarita – Darya Zavyalova, Kristina Kutsa
Pedestrians on the Arbat – Kristina Boitsova, Foma Byzgu, Yulia Vibe, Ilya Koletsky, Darya Solovyova, Anastasia Stebneva, Nelya Sharipova, Simon Evald
Orchestra – Richard Ardashin, Saima Visti, Kirill Gordleyev, Anton Gorchakov, Nikita Kapralov, Dmitri Mikov
Annushka – Darya Solovyova
Voland – Giorgi Goloshvili, Gleb Savchuk
Behemoth the Cat – Foma Byzgu, Yuri Nasonov
Koroviev – Kirill Gordleyev, Ilya Koletsky
Azazello – Nikita Kapralov, Levan Tsiskadze
Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz – Richard Ardashin, Sergei Pankov
Ivan Bezdomny – Kirill Gordleyev, Dmitri Mikov, Yuri Nasonov
Pontious Pilate – Nikita Kapralov, Levan Tsiskadze
Yeshua Ha-Nozri – Anton Gorchakov
Pilate’s Secretary – Mikhail Gavrilov, Artur Gross
Marcus the Ratslayer – Gleb Savchuk, Levan Tsiskadze, Simon Evald
Caiaphas – Sergei Pankov, Giorgi Goloshvili
NKVD Investigators – Mikhail Gavrilov, Sergei Pankov, Darya Solovyova, Dmitri Mikov
Pedestrians (“Misha Berlioz”) – Kristina Boitsova, Yulia Vibe, Anastasia Ermak, Maria Stolyarova, Viktoria Troitskaya, Nelya Sharipova, Simon Evald
Tram – Yulia Vibe, Darya Zavyalova, Maria Stolyarova, Nelya Sharipova
Gypsies – Foma Byzgu, Kristina Kutsa, Sunchen Chzhao
Athletes – Richard Ardashin, Kirill Gordleyev, Nikita Kapralov, Dmitri Mikov, Levan Tsiskadze, Nelya Sharipova
Residents – Kamilla Borgezani, Saima Visti, Mikhail Gavrilov, Simon Evald
Beggar by the River – Foma Byzgu, Anton Gorchakov
MASSOLIT Members – Richard Ardashin, Kirill Gordleyev, Anton Gorchakov, Artur Gross, Darya Zavyalova, Nikita Kapralov, Gleb Savchuk, Maria Stolyarova, Viktoria Troitskaya, Simon Evald
Forensic Pathologist – Mikhail Gavrilov
Zheldybin, Berlioz’s Deputy – Yuri Nasonov
Archibald Archibaldovich – Foma Byzgu, Mikhail Gavrilov, Giorgi Goloshvili
Waiters at Griboyedov House – Foma Byzgu, Giorgi Goloshvili, Ilya Koletsky
Alexander Ryukhin – Nikita Kapralov
Eduard Raznesensky – Richard Ardashin, Kirill Gordleyev, Anton Gorchakov
Patrons of Griboyedov House:
Johan from Kronshtadt – Gleb Savchuk
Semeikina-Gall – Kamilla Borgezani
Shpichkina – Kristina Kutsa
Adelfina Buzdyak – Anastasia Ermak
Little Deniskin – Levan Tsiskadze
Guest – Kristina Boitsova
Cherdakchi – Anastasia Stebneva
From Rostov – Viktoria Troitskaya
Crescent Moon – Nelya Sharipova
Pavianov – Richard Ardashin
Vitya Kuftik – Andrei Ankudinov, Sergei Pankov
Poetess – Darya Solovyova
Actress in a Yellow Dress – Darya Zavyalova
Sweetie – Simon Evald
Doctor in the Clinic – Yulia Vibe, Simon Evald
Nurse – Yulia Vibe, Anastasia Ermak, Darya Zavyalova
Orderlies – Richard Ardashin, Kirill Gordleyev, Dmitri Mikov
Dr. Stravinsky – Sergei Pankov
Praskovya Fyodorovna – Darya Solovyova, Nelya Sharipova
Editor – Foma Byzgu
Lapshennikova – Darya Solovyova
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov – Anton Gorchakov, Yuri Nasonov
Investigators – Richard Ardashin, Giorgi Goloshvili, Kirill Gordleyev, Simon Evald
Alozy Mogarych – Ilya Koletsky, Levan Tsiskadze
Janitor – Kirill Gordleyev
Margarita’s Husband – Dmitri Mikov, Kirill Gordleyev
Natasha – Kamilla Borgezani, Saima Visti, Anastasia Ermak, Anastasia Stebneva
Pedestrian – Kirill Gordleyev
Nikolai Ivanovich, Hog – Artur Gross, Yuri Nasonov, Sergei Pankov, Levan Tsiskadze
Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev – Mikhail Gavrilov, Kirill Gordleyev, Dmitri Mikov
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy – Richard Ardashin, Nikita Kapralov, Gleb Savchuk
Bosoy’s Wife – Darya Solovyova
Grigory Danilovich Rimsky – Foma Byzgu, Artur Gross, Yuri Nasonov
Verenukha – Simon Evald
Gella (Postwoman) – Maria Stolyarova, Viktoria Troitskaya
Zhorzh Belgansky – Nikita Kapralov
Patrons of the Variete – Kristina Boitsova, Kamilla Borgezani, Yulia Vibe, Saima Visti, Kirill Gordleyev, Anton Gorchakov, Darya Zavyalova, Kristina Kutsa, Anastasia Stebneva, Viktoria Troitskaya, Levan Tsiskadze, Nelya Sharipova, Simon Evald
Ladies’ Shop:
Lyubov Orlova – Yulia Vibe
Marlene Dietrich – Darya Zavyalova
Edith Piaf – Anastasia Stebneva
Audrey Hepburn – Kristina Kutsa
Marilyn Monroe – Saima Visti
Sophie Loren – Nelya Sharipova
Twiggy – Darya Solovyova
Madonna – Anastasia Ermak
Lady Gaga – Kamilla Borgezani
Fashion of the Future – Sunchen Chzhao
Arkady Apollonovich Sempleyarov – Mikhail Gavrilov, Levan Tsiskadze
His Wife – Saima Visti, Nelya Sharipova
His Lover – Anastasia Stebneva
Lastochkin, an Accountant – Richard Ardashin
Employees of the Variete – Kirill Gordleyev, Anastasia Ermak, Darya Zavyalova, Nikita Kapralov, Maria Stolyarova
Taxi Driver – Levan Tsiskadze
Anna Richardovna – Kamilla Borgezani
Prokhor Petrovich (costume) – Simon Evald
Secretary of Relaxed Institutions – Nelya Sharipova
Uncle from Kiev – Mikhail Gavrilov, Kirill Gordleyev, Sergei Pankov
Steward – Sergei Pankov
Abadonna – Kirill Gordleyev
Baron Maigel – Nikita Kapralov
Frida – Kamilla Borgezani, Darya Solovyova
Guests at the Ball:
Photographer – Richard Ardashin, Viktoria Troitskaya
Monsieur Jacque – Dmitri Mikov
Conchita Wurst – Darya Solovyova
Boy – Kirill Gordleyev, Ilya Koletsky
Malyuta Skuratov – Levan Tsiskadze
Mrs. Tofan – Maria Stolyarova
Muscovite Hairdresser – Darya Zavyalova
Berlioz – Sergei Pankov
Sofya Pavlovna – Yulia Vibe, Saima Visti, Darya Solovyova
Petrakov – Artur Gross
Petrakova – Anastasia Stebneva
Boba Kandalupsky – Levan Tsiskadze
Duration: 2 evenings, 4 hours each