Award winning Master & Margarita at The Edmonton Fringe Festival
Along with The Fever by Wallace Shaw, Seattle’s Theater Simple will take their award-winning original adaptation of Mikhail Bulgarkov’s acclaimed novel The Master & Margarita to The Edmonton Fringe Festival next month. N.B. The Edmonton Fringe Festival is the largest in the North America.
In theater and movies fevers, like dreams, play a special role. In North American culture, they cue us to thinking what is expressed is coming from the deepest and unfiltered parts of our unconscious minds. So from the title alone we are to understand this is a stream-of-(un)consciousness work, and Wallace (Wally) Shawn holds tight to this trope to present his audience with the uncomfortable realities of being white and of the privilege classes in America.
Shawn wrote this in 1990. He could have written this for 1940 or 2040. It’s the nature of the luck of being born privileged
