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Screenwriter John Hodge brings macabre wit and flair to his theatre debut, a fantasia on the co-dependent love/hate relationship between the pen and the sword. Actually, it's typewriter versus gun in director Nicholas Hytner's swirling in-the-round staging of Mikhail Bulgakov's Moscow. Here, the dying liberal writer (played by a patrician Alex Jennings) is haunted by his country's devilish Master, Josef Stalin (Simon Russell Beale), a papa-tyrant who claims to be Bulgakov's 'Number one fan'. Hodge imagines what happened when Mikhail was forcibly commissioned to write a play about the young Josef. Unlike the play Bulgakov reluctantly wrote, this is no plodding re-creation. It's a tribute to the 'Master and Margarita' writer's own surreal, metaphorical work, a vivid allegory of totalitarianism in which noir meets farce.
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