Bulgakov will be "revived" at the Vsevolod Shilovsky Theater

On April 14 and May 14, at 20:00, the Moscow Vsevolod Shilovsky Theater will host pre-premiere screenings of the literary and musical evening "Bulgakov with Music" (12+).

This is a new theater project dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the birth of the author of "The Master and Margarita" and other iconic works of twentieth-century Russian literature. The audience is promised a "journalistic look" at the writer's fate, where the words are backed up by facts, and the mood is classical music.

Denis Lizin, a journalist and radio host, is responsible for the screenplay and the role of the narrator. According to him, the seemingly familiar format of the literary evening will be filled with a completely new content.

"It seems that we are not reinventing the wheel," says Denis Lizin. — But it's only in form. And in terms of content, content, and meanings, I think the audience will see something on the stage of the Vsevolod Shilovsky Theater that has not yet been seen in the theatrical sphere. For one evening, we will "revive" Mikhail Bulgakov through stories from his life, through personal details, through little-known nuances of his work, through the backstage of his books."

The musical fabric of the performance is created by the ensemble of soloists "Tragicome" — laureates of international competitions Diana Kemelman (violin) and Alexander Antonov (keys). They will perform compositions that become the full-fledged voice of the creative universe of Bulgakov and his era.

"The assembly of the program is extremely intuitive," explains Diana Kemelman. — The text associated with a personality and its era has its own emotional coloring, its own character. Almost the same as music. This character creates images. The musical style of our ensemble, the theatricality, the play of masks and moods help a lot in our case. There's always a lot of mystery in this kind of music."

The audience will be told who Bulgakov was before he became a Master: a doctor, a morphine addict, a journalist, a playwright who went through the hell of the Civil War, poverty and harassment. The evening will take the listener through Bulgakov's Moscow — from the "bad apartment" to the editorial office of the newspaper "Gudok", from the Patriarch's Ponds to the house on Prechistenka. The authors promise to reveal where Sharikov came from, where the legendary Annushka lived, and why his third wife, Elena Shilovskaya, can be considered the co-author of the main novel.

"With this production, our theater opens a new direction — a cycle of literary and musical evenings," says theater director Victoria Parkhomenko. — We have great respect for other genres — documentary and musical theater, as well as for the authors who make up the golden fund of Russian literature. Historically, our master is related to Elena Shilovskaya, the wife of Mikhail Afanasievich. It is important to us that the history of literary and musical evenings begins and continues on our stage."

The duration of the evening is 1 hour and 30 minutes, without intermission. The organizers say the mission of this evening is to hear the author through time and understand how his fate was reflected in the immortal lines.