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'Master and Margarita': Stalin's Hell
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030827
Author:Ken Ringle
Why would you want to spend an August evening sweltering in a non- air-conditioned church in Columbia Heights watching an underfunded theater troupe act out existential and maybe absurdist parables?
To see the Rorschach Theatre's persistently intriguing staging of Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita," an intellectual grab bag of a play that somehow manages to combine elements of TomStoppard, Nikolai Gogol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Your body may be perspiring, but your mind will be running an irresistible obstacle course without breaking a sweat.
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