Complicite presents
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
From the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
In English, with French surtitles 

 

[EN] After many years of touring all over the world, Simon McBurney's award-winning company, Complicite, comes to Luxembourg with the mainland European premiere of a new work, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

In recent years Complicite has created some of the most inspiring and original theatre to come out of the UK. A Disappearing Number was seen in Europe, the USA and India and was winner of the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2007 Critics Circle Award for Best New Play and the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. The Company's production of Shun-kin, based on the writings of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, was originally created in Tokyo and was recently seen in London, Paris and Taipei. Simon McBurney was awarded the Yomiuri Theatre Award Grand Prize for Best Director for the piece - the first time this award has ever been presented to a non-Japanese director.

In 2010 Simon McBurney directed his first opera, A Dog's Heart, which was seen at De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam and at English National Opera.

» … nobody makes theatre quite like Complicite… Director Simon McBurney likes to make ideas beautiful. But his greatest talent is for making theatre without boundaries: where flickering film projections, plaintive soundscapes and a physically attuned flock of actors act like one great moving surface across which feelings ebb and flow… Time Out

 » That's McBurney for you: the energy, the quirky imagination, the creative restlessness that have brought himinternational renown. Stephen Daldry calls him "one of the world's most important directors", Richard Eyre is an "aficionado" who loves the way he has brought foreign influences to England, Michael Boyd admits to having taken the top job at the RSC only because he wanted to imbue the company with Complicite's "spirit of collaborative sustained enquiry". The Times

DIRECTOR Simon McBurney DESIGN Es Devlin LIGHTING Paul Anderson SOUND Gareth Fry VIDEO Finn Ross COSTUME Christina Cunningham PRODUCTION Complicite CO-PRODUCTION Barbican London, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Wiener Festwochen, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Festival D'Avignon IN ASSOCIATION WITH Theatre Royal Plymouth

Jeudi 15 DÉCEMBRE 2011 à 20h00 (tickets) Vendredi 16 DÉCEMBRE 2011 à 20h00 (tickets) DURÉE 3h10 & 1 entracte de 20 minutes Adultes 20 € / Jeunes 8 € 7.30 p.m. Introduction to the play with Janine Goedert Lieu: Grand Théâtre / Grande Salle