Master and Margarita
National Theatre Budapest, 2021

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.

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