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    Collaborators: NT Live

    Collaborators: NT Live

    Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre

    December 1, 2011

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    A new play by John Hodge (screenwriter of Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach), directed by National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner.

    Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom.

    Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.

    Killing my enemies is easy. The challenge is to change the way they think, to control their minds. And I think I controlled yours pretty well. In years to come, I’ll be able to say: Bulgakov? Yeah, we even trained him. He gave up. He saw the light. We broke him, we can break anybody. It’s man versus monster, Mikhail. And the monster always wins.

    John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny. Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale tackles the role of Stalin.


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        Coolidge Corner Theatre

        290 Harvard St
        Brookline, MA 02446

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        $20 General, $17 Senior

        Info Phone: 617-734-2500

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        December 1, 2011

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        7:00pm

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