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Apr 10, 2024 · April 10, 2024 3 AM PT. Soon after Russian tanks crashed into Ukraine, Michael Lockshin realized he was making a dangerous movie. The director had spent 69 days, and $15 million, filming “The ...
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May 1, 2024 · Bulgakov's novel about a writer fighting state oppression in the 1930s now seems like a forecast of Lockshin's own struggle to get his work out in the world. On screen and off, the film Master and ...
Oct 27, 2013 · David C. Nichols – LA Times Mikhail Bulgakov meets Sergei Eisenstein at Andy Warhol’s Factory in “Moskva.” This ornate take on Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” is a nobly ambitious, surreally unhinged deep-dish bowl of dramaturgical borscht.Read more… Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA City Garage is known for staging edgy and provocative avant garde theater and […]
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A memorable first encounter with The Master and Margarita is a common experience across the passionate readership of its author, Mikhail Bulgakov. Mike Tsykin was a teenager in 1960s Moscow when he heard a sensational work of fiction was about to be published in a magazine, almost 30 years after its author had died. "The librarians were interested ...
Humorously told with a knowing, satirical turn of phrase, The Master and Margarita is set in the 1930s. It was 1973 by the time it was published in novel form, but Russians still found it hilariously spot-on about the absurdities of life under communism. Readers have been struck by the romance, dazzling imagery and moral questioning of the writing,...
In 1930 Bulgakov was a banned playwright and author of short stories with no income and at his wit's end, when he received a fateful phone call from Joseph Stalin. The author had been writing letters to the authorities seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union. As the regime became more repressive, his desperation and paranoia increased. "My fate h...
For so many readers, particularly Russians, the novel has life-changing — and sometimes mystical — associations. "My father read this book so many times that he could actually speak in quotes from the book. He could quote it almost from any page," says Muscovite Natalia Ryzhkova. "Each time you read it you literally find something new. Something yo...
Bulgakov has long been published and celebrated in Russia, but according to Professor Curtis a comparable set of state doctrines is now being used to censor writers, particularly in the theatre. "Since the abandoning of socialist realism as a doctrine, we are seeing a sort of reinstatement of Soviet-era values in some respect," she says. "You simpl...
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in 1891. He studied and practised medicine but gave up his medical career to become a writer of short stories, plays and novels. His combination of humour and satire gained him a popular following, but his work also attracted the attention of the Soviet authorities and by 1930 his writing was essentially banned from publication.
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Apr 13, 2014 · Shows that are listed at two hours and fifteen minutes shouldn’t be forgiven for running three hours, unless they are written by a genius like Mikhail Bulgakov. One of that early Soviet dissident’s plays is in fact embedded in Charles A. Duncombe’s new play, sort of, but it’s a dream version that takes place simultaneously in an underwritten 17 th Century France and an overfamiliar 21 ...
