The Master and Margarita

or The Devil Comes to Moscow

A magical play based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Adapted for the stage by Jean-Claude van Itallie.
Directed by the Finley Award-winning Virginia Moore-Price

The Devil, his acrobatic cat and other colourful cronies come to Stalin's Moscow to wreak hilarious surreal havoc on the lives of writers, critics and bureaucrats who have lost touch with their feelings. Satan sends some to the madhouse, stages a devilish play within a play, and gives the lyrical Margarita a whirlwind witch's ride climaxing in a satanic masked ball as she searches for her lover, a writer known as "Master". The novel Master is writing appears simultaneously on stage. His work, politically suppressed, focuses on the moral dilemma of Pontius Pilate in biblical Jerusalem...

Friday 24 July 2026 - Saturday 8 August 2026
The Old Mill Theatre, Mends St, SOUTH PERTH WA 6151

By arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.