Writer: Michail Bulgakow
Director: Aleksandar Popovski
Scenography: Numen + Ivana Jonke
Assistant: Dora Riederauer
Set design for the production of Master and Margarita in the National Theatre Budapest.
The scenes are staged largely literally, against the backdrop of the all-encompassing rope grid. The grid acts as the metaphorical domain of the regime and its structural violence and absurdity. Within the calm and abstract territory of mutually othogonal lines, a variety of setups, objects and characters appear and disappear with mind-boggling velocity. Ocasionally there is magic. The cresscendo is achieved in the final scene of the performance when Woland destroys the grid, demonstrating once again the cosmic irrelevance of all systems and ideologies.
Berlioz's Funeral
Stravinsky's Hospital - Insane Asylum
Patriarch's Ponds
Walpurgis Night
Yershalaim / Jerusalem
Patriarch's Ponds
Griboedov House - Massolit Headquarters
Stravinsky's Hospital - Insane Asylum
Berlioz´s Apartment
Walpurgis Night
Stravinsky's Hospital - Insane Asylum
Office of the Variety Theatre
Variety Theatre - Woland's Black Magic Show
Stravinsky's Hospital - Insane Asylum
Bald Mountain - Golgotha
Margarita and Yeshua Ha-Nozri
Margarita and Azazello
Margarita's cream
The flight
Walpurgis Night
Margarita & Woland
Woland's destruction of the grid, matrix, regime, religion, material world, space and time.
