The Master
and Margarita
(Meistras ir Margarita)
Based on the novel by Mikhaïl Bulgakov
Staged by Oskaras Korsunovas (Lithuania)
Adaptation and dramaturgy Sigitas Parulskis
Set design Jurate Paulekaité
Costumes designVida Simanaviciute et Aleksandras Pogrebnojus
Music Gintaras Sodeika
Starring
Dainius Kazlauskas, Aldona Bendoriute, Rytis Saladzius, Arunas Sakalauskas, Vaidas Martinaitis, Saulius Mykolaitis, Dainius Gavenonis, Rasa Samuolyte, Remigijus Vilkaitis, Airida Gintautaite, Algirdas Dainavicius, Egle Mikulionyte, Jolanta Dapkunaite, Andrius Zebrauskas, Algirdas Gradauskas
and Petras Geniusas, Pianist
Set design Jurate Paulekaité
Costumes designVida Simanaviciute et Aleksandras Pogrebnojus
Music Gintaras Sodeika
Starring
Dainius Kazlauskas, Aldona Bendoriute, Rytis Saladzius, Arunas Sakalauskas, Vaidas Martinaitis, Saulius Mykolaitis, Dainius Gavenonis, Rasa Samuolyte, Remigijus Vilkaitis, Airida Gintautaite, Algirdas Dainavicius, Egle Mikulionyte, Jolanta Dapkunaite, Andrius Zebrauskas, Algirdas Gradauskas
and Petras Geniusas, Pianist
Premiere: July 19, 2000 - Festival d’Avignon (France)
Co-production Oskaro Korsunovo Teatras (Vilnius, Lithuania), Festival d'Avignon (France), Theater der Stadt (Remscheid, Germany), THEOREM (association supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union)
"The Master and Margarita is so diverse, and consists of so many levels and meanings that a total staging and interpretation of it becomes impossible. That is why the only possibility is to cut a chunk from this magic moon, by chosing one or more themes, one or more situations and developing them to the point of infinity.
We choose is the relationship between Margarita and Woland as our central theme. In other words, the story of Faust expressed through a woman. This idea is one of the most dramatic and most painfulnarrative threads. Margarita is not just a woman who sacrificed herself like in Goethe's Faust; she has consciously chosen the "deal" - eternal self-destruction - for the sake of love which is her highest creative ideal. Woland and his company make for another kind of hero. In the novel, this terrifying gang is not accidentally gifted with good looks. The action takes place in a totalitarian Stalinist system, and they are the only ones who remain invincible, with their free spirits undiminished. They dramatically expose any demagogy based on ideology. They are the only ones to give Margarita the right to choose, a freedom which she is ready to accept with all her creative powers. They are also the only ones to give Margarita and the Master their right to individualism. Not only that, but this gang of paradoxical connoisseurs has enabled us to create the theatre of paradoxes we have been seeking out and trying to invent since our earliest performances based on Daniil Harms' texts. This paradoxical language has become the signature style of our theatre."
Oskaras Korsunovas
