The White Guard

Written by renowned 20th-century Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. His path through life was not a calm one. Receiving both extreme praise and criticism as an author, one could say that his life was truly at the mercy of his times. This author from the Soviet Union, who faced a disease that ravaged his body and lived for only 48 years and nine months, deserves to be remembered forever.
This performance of his famous work is truly a timely one. The White Guard was released as a novel in 1925 and then performed as the author's own play, The Days of the Turbins, at the Moscow Art Theatre the following year. Acclaimed as the successor to Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, it achieved enormous critical success. Our production is based on the Andrew Upton's version performed in 2010 at the National Theatre in London.