ELIZABETH DINKOVA
Director & Writer
THE BERLIN DIARIES
JUNE 4-22
BY ANDREA STOLOWITZ
DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH DINKOVA
THEATER J
Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy in The Berlin Diaries. How do you find home when a family history is scattered like the torn pages of a journal entry released to the wind? Two performers become generations of characters in an attempt to stitch together clues and restore memories formerly lost to time.
How do people become verschollen, lost, like library books, leaving only the dusty outline – a life reduced to negative space? Stolowitz searches for clues that propel her forward and backward in time, pursuing a family history formerly lost to war. In a breathtaking journey around the world, what will remain lost and what will be found at the intersection of national history and private lives?
PROFESSOR WOLAND'S BLACK MAGIC ROCK SHOW
MARCH 20-APRIL 13
MUSIC & LYRICS BY MICHAEL & ANDREA PEMBERTON
BOOK BY JESSE RASMUSSEN 7 ELIZABETH DINKOVA
DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH DINKOVA
Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, and banned for decades, Bulgakov’s “Funny, devilish, brilliant satire”* The Master and Margarita became a literary phenomenon with a cult following. In this new musical loosely inspired by it, a band of dissident rock musicians (or perhaps the demonic retinue of Satan himself) visit 1930s Moscow to expose social climbers, bureaucrats, and profiteers. The Master—an idealistic writer working on a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate—is silenced and detained in an asylum. Margarita, his collaborator and lover, embarks on a journey through heaven and hell to save him and his manuscript.
This fantastical, wildly comedic political satire celebrates love that defies all odds, the interplay of good and evil, and the freedom of the spirit in an unfree world. This rock musical channels the resistance of artists in totalitarian states across the globe.
