Mikhail Bulgakov’s Don Quixote comes to stage

First published in 1935, the play is an adaptation of the Don Quixote by the Spanish author Dan Miguel de Cervantes, a critique of Stalin's rule.

 

 

Bulgakov's Don Quixote fits comfortably into the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of idealistic, troubled intellectuals, but Quixote's quest becomes an allegory of the artist under the strictures of Stalin's regime. Bulgakov did not live to see the play performed: it went into production in 1940, only months after his death.

 

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

 

The play "Don Quixote", translated by Arefeh Qaidi, rewritten and directed by Javad Molania, will be staged at the Nofel Loshato Mansion in November, and additional information will be announced later.