The play "Einstein and Margarita" in Mülheim an der Ruhr 12 March 2024

The play "Almar" by Alexander Gelman is a story about love and atomic bomb

Actors: Ksenia Rappoport, Alexei Serebryakov

Director: Alexander Marin

Scenography: Alexey Serebryakov

Costumes: Svetlana Tegin

Choreography: Maria Serebryakova

Ksenia Rappoport and Alexei Serebryakov have met on the film set many times, but this is the first time they will be together on the same stage. The play about great love and the atomic bomb "Einstein and Margarita" was directed by Alexander Marin.

In 1935, the Princeton Institute commissioned Russian émigré Sergei Konenkov to sculpt a portrait of Albert Einstein. The sculptor's wife Margarita met the famous physicist at that time and was his only love for many years. Two extraordinary people found themselves together in a difficult situation in such a historic era.

In the new play "Almar" by Soviet and Russian playwright Alexander Gelman, the action takes place in Einstein's house on the night Konyonkova arrives there. Outside the window, it is August 1945, and the U.S. has just dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Einstein, who has fled to America from the Nazis and the impending war, is acutely worried about everything that is happening and blames himself for his involvement in the creation of nuclear weapons by the Americans. Margarita informs him that in a week's time, after years of living in America, she and her husband are leaving back to the Soviet Union. For good. Einstein tries to persuade her to stay, but in vain - parting is inevitable. Margarita will go to the Soviet Union, and Einstein will write her poignant letters to Moscow.

On a quiet night in the scientist's modest home in Princeton, terrible words will be spoken and a terrible secret will be revealed....