RAT PR: THE MASTER & MARGARITA: Seattle 4/20- 5/5/2001

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Hello friends near and far -

I hope you all find following press release as interesting as I do - and if 
you could do me a favor:
Pass the info on to YOUR interested friends also near and far. 

Due to circumstances Beyond Our Control (how appropriate) the flyers for the 
show are getting out late - like next week. However, since the original 
manuscript for THE MASTER & MARGARITA was passed hand to hand, it seems 
entirely proper that we are passing it about hand to hand in its modern 
equivalent.

We hope to see you here! It's going to be great! (And tickets are already 
going fast!) And watch your mailbox. (If you are not on the LANDmail list, 
and you wish to be, please reply with the necessary information.)

SEE YOU IN THE THEATER!

Llysa 
theater simple's 
MISS INFORMATION 2001

PS: Please let us know if we are pestering you, and you want off this 
particular merry-go-round! 
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THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Returns!!
with Amy Augustine, James Cowan, Llysa Holland, Monique Kleinhans and Andrew 
Litzky, directed by Rachel Katz Carey

Showered with accolades from around the world(literally) touring addicts 
theater simple 
re-examine their audaciously theatrical interpretation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 
banned novel - 
Satan comes to 1930's Moscow, but he's not the devil we think we know... 
theater simple  shakes up a philosophical Molotov cocktail with shots of 
magic realism, vaudeville, the Bible and music in this original 
interpretation of Mikhail Bulgakov's final masterpiece. 
Celebrating theater simple's 10th year, the origianl cast ofThe Master & 
Margarita will be bouncing off the walls of the South Pod at the Brig, Sand 
Point Naval Reserve April 20 - May 5, 2001.

theater simple is doing a hell of show. Again. 
an original distillation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and 
Margarita.  
Banned then censored for over 30 years, it has become one of the most 
influential novels of modern Russia. (Last seen in Seattle in '97, Portland 
and Charleston '98)

THE (convoluted)STORY:  Satan(Professor Woland) comes to 1930's Moscow, 
fiendish entourage in tow, to check on the Revolution.  He also plans to test 
and perhaps free the Master, a writer whose faith in himself has been 
destroyed by the censorship of his evocative religious writing on Pontius 
Pilate.  And hell, Woland needs to find a hostess for his annual Grand 
Ball... (got that??!)
But Woland is not the same Devil we know. Nor is Pilate the same Pilate or 
Jesus the same Jesus....
Bulgakov masterfully juggles stories, arranging them like nesting dolls (in 
which one is hiding inside another) and continually throwing his characters' 
world-view off-balance.  
High-speed musings on the interdependence of good and evil, guilt and mercy, 
and the importance of faith. 

* note: this show contains NUDITY. (equal opportunity, even)
show length =  110 minutes, no interval

THE IMPORTANT DETAILS  

venue:  South Pod, The BRIG  - Bldg 406, Sand Point Navel Reserve (follow the 
signs)
    7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington, on the shores of Lake 
Washington
On Metro lines: routes 74 and 75
dates/times:  20 April - 5 May 2001   
Thursday through Saturday at 8:00PM, Sunday matinees at 2:00PM

tickets:   general admission $15general/ $13 Seniors and students with ID
Gala Opening Night and Benefit: $25 (includes party and live music)
Tickets  available in advance through TicketWindow(Visa/MC) 
online: www.ticketwindowonline.com  phone sales 206.325-6500  fax: 
425.450.3839
or at the door 45 minutes before the show. (cash only).

CHEAP DATES: Pay What You Can Performances:   
Sunday 4/22 and Thursday 4/26. Tickets available only at the door on a 
space-available basis
(if you want even cheaper tickets, you can help us out and VOLUNTEER TO 
USHER!)
info@theatersimple.org

Other info: 206.784.8647 or info@theatersimple.org
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RAVES about The Master & Margarita: 
for your delight and edification...

Best Play - 1998 Adelaide Fringe 
Best Show  - Victoria & Vancouver Fringes 
(also, awarded Moby-Dick-in-a-Goldfish-Bowl prize for Adaptation in Victoria)
One of the Five Best Things to Happen in Seattle Theater in 1997 - Seattle 
Weekly
1997 Footlight Award  - Seattle Times 
Best Of the Fringe or Critic's Pick by :
  newspapers from Canada to Charleston, Seattle to Adelaide
 
The Advertiser  FRINGE AWARD: BEST PLAY  Adelaide, AU
 "this vigorous Seattle company delivers the quality goods once again 
...theater simple balances the grotesque with the sublimely elegant, 
juxtaposes absurdity with profundity and makes light of darkness. Superb."

The Stranger                Seattle
"5 talented actors, 13 lights, a simple set and a handlful of props - a wild, 
chaotic, nightmare-drenched hallucination - razor sharp and air tight.  
Characters and scenes transform in an instant, gallop away and then return to 
their starting point with a symmetry that is breathtakingly unexpected yet 
inevitable."

The Seattle Times         
"A surreal, carnival-esque tone - a fantastically and darkly funny story in 
which the various characters and plots twist, wend and unpeel on their way to 
making the author's points.  Remarkable.  It's one of those rare plays that 
you still contemplate days after it's over. "

The Seattle Weekly
"The company launches into the text with a sort of ingenuity that makes you 
laugh out loud - the journey has so much interesting scenery that you're 
sorry to have it come to an end. Fringe at its best."

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A heap of giddy inventiveness...  satire predominates, but also slapstick 
comedy, music-hall hijinks, historical pageant, hallucinatory surealism, low 
tech special effects and rarified philosophy.  Ingenious."

Seattle.sidewalk.com         
"theater simple conjures huge effects from the tightest economy... 
broadcasting magic more evocatively rich than the high-dollar confections 
seen on main stages elsewhere around town. Director Rachel S. Katz 
choreographs the carnival complexity into a flawless movement."

Georgia Straight -                Vancouver
"Treat yourself to the Master & Margarita . It's pure theatrical poetry - in 
it's ambitions, concerns and form
 - and poetry in the theatre is as startlingly unexpected as spiritual 
honesty in everyday life.
.. An extraordinary piece of work from a team of artists who are establishing 
themselves as 
true masters of the Fringe."




theater simple: masters at shoestring epics  Roger Downey,The Seattle Weekly


The Province -               Vancouver, BC
"theater simple  magically transforms an almost bare stage - it makes you 
want to go back and see it again and again."

Edmonton  Journal       HHHHH 
"A polished gem - If you catch - and you must - theater simple's engrossing 
version of The Master & Margarita, you'll see a company with it's wits about 
them - and the Fringe at it's finest....a supple, hallucinogenic production 
that uses the simple resources of a Fringe  stage with great panache.  This 
is the kind of apparent simplicity that demonstrates real theatrical 
sophistication - an invitation for an audience to take a leap of the 
imagination. A stunning combination of stagecraft and storytelling."





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