INU to Dokusai Sha

[Machine Translation] Mikhail Bulgakov, who lived in the Soviet Union during the revolutionary era and left behind the novel "The Master and Margarita," wrote a biographical play about the dictator Stalin at the request of the Moscow Art Theater the year before his death, but was banned from performing it. Based on this historical fact, this play imaginatively depicts the struggle of a literary critic to write a biography of a dictator. The author, Atsuto Suzuki (leader of the theater company Impression), is planning the "State and the Artist" series, starting with a stage adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's "Diary of an Insane Man" in 2019. The company will stage plays that critique literary figures and painters such as Kastner, Tsuguharu Fujita, George Orwell, and Karel apek. The company continues to produce an increasing number of plays that bridge the gap between theater and literary readers.

革命時代のソ連を生き、小説『巨匠とマルガリータ』を遺したミハイル・ブルガーコフは死の前年、「モスクワ芸術座」の依頼で、独裁者スターリンの評伝劇を書き上げるも、上演禁止の宣告を受けた。この史実をもとに、文学者が独裁者の評伝劇を書き上げるまでの葛藤を、想像力豊かに描出した戯曲。著者・鈴木アツト(劇団印象主宰)は、2019年の谷崎潤一郎「瘋癲老人日記」の舞台化を皮切りに、「国家と芸術家」シリーズを構想。ケストナー、藤田嗣治、ジョージ・オーウェル、カレル・チャペックら文学者・画家の評伝劇を上演。演劇と文芸読者を橋渡しする演目を増やし続けている。