Cottesloe, LondonJohn Hodge is an honest man. He admits his new play about the relationship between Josef Stalin and the writer Mikhail Bulgakov derives from a film which was never made. But, while the result has a quirky vitality and yields two outstanding performances, its satire does not strike its intended target.It starts with recorded historical fact. Bulgakov's work was constantly banned by the Soviet cultural…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53PM on November 1, 2011