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As Azazello, a beast in Kabuki makeup and S&M gear, the alarmingly limber Alex Mills may induce sympathetic low-back spasms as you watch him crabwalk-like-a-crustacean but with greater elegance, delivering what feels like paragraphs of dialogue with an inverted head. Tsikurishvili’s few (but too many) speaking scenes as the Master does the show ever lose its ghoulish mojo otherwise, it’s spooky, sexy, and visually entrancing throughout. Or you can just sit back and marvel at the sensory feast Synetic co-founders Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili and designer Anastasia Rurikov Simes (responsible for the set, costumes, and props) have harvested from that wicked book.

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free will, or whether Bulgakov is endorsing a Christian worldview, if you’re of a masticating mind. Revised for a Lansburgh Theater run, Synetic’s sumptuous adaptation preserves enough of the text to allow you to rechew determinism vs. You can see where we’re going plot-wise, but Bulgakov’s theological payload remains considerably more opaque. Margarita, the Master’s lover, is prepared to deal with anyone to secure his return. Sinister men in trenchcoats disappear the Master to an asylum, where fellow inmate Bezdomny recounts for him his own touched-by-a-devil path to the madhouse. In Bulgakov’s Faustian yarn, the state flags a novelist (“the Master”) as a subversive for his manuscript about that mob-ruled hand-washer Pontius Pilate. Mikhail Bulgakov’s censored allegorical novel, written throughout the 1930s but not published until the ’60s, does for Stalin’s Russia more or less what The Screwtape Letters did for Churchill’s Britain, setting a demon loose to prey on the souls of a populace already exhausted by terror. Synetic Theater’s stock has soared, or maybe just stayed aloft, since 2004, when the outfit that bills itself, fairly, as D.C.’s “premier physical theater company” first brought The Master and Margarita to the stage. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.

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