In a time and world dominated by algorithms and the pathological desire to accumulate money, a time that generates a word as frightening as monetizeThe awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Hungarian László Krasznahorkai has pleased those who still want—we still want—to believe in literature as a place of resistance. Resistance against what or whom, you might ask? Well, resistance against charlatans and charlatans. Against cynics, impostors, opportunists. Of course, against authoritarians and champions of false freedoms.

Àlex Rigola returns to the Teatre Lliure, which he directed a few years ago (2003-2011), with an ambitious version of Mikhail Bulgakov's monumental work. The Master and MargaritaConsidered one of the most important works of 20th-century Russian literature, we first saw it theatrically in 2003 in a version directed by Xicu Masó that premiered at Lliure de Gràcia as part of the Grec Festival. Pep Tosar would do another very intimate one in 2013 at the small Círcol Maldà and In 2012, the sumptuous and spectacular production of Théâtre du Complicité would arrive by Simon McBurney that fully exploited all the visual possibilities of a novel with traits of the fantasy genre.

It had been eight years since Àlex Rigola had set foot in the main hall of the Teatre Lliure, since that Ivanov 2017, with which he announced that he had become a "stage diabetic" and wanted to bury his theatrical stamp and disappear behind the actors. After years locked in a wooden box and in a fifty-seat room (his theater, the Heartbreak Hotel), finally Rigola returns to do theatre for five hundred people with a resounding title, The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail A. Bulgakov (1891-1949), which will be at the Montjuïc Theatre from September 18 to October 19. "Here we had to put on a show. The entire work is crazy. And the stage bet is for everything to be crazy," he warns.