 Welcome to Chicago Theatres on the Air. I'm Studs Terkel. This Chicago Theatres on the Air presentation is The Master in Margarita, adapted by Heidi Stillman and The Master in Margarita Ensemble. From the Russian novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, the translation is by Michael Glennie. The play was directed by David Catelyn and Heidi Stillman, produced by Kate Churchill. The cast includes Joy Gregory as Margarita, Philip R. Smith as The Master, David Kirstner as a variety of characters, Joey Slotnick as Azozello, Andrew White as Wolland, Marianne Mayberry as Yvonne, Douglas Harrah as Behemoth the Cat, Laura Eason as Yeshua and Natasha, Thomas J. Cox as Koroviev, Lawrence E. Di Stasi as Matthew and Dr. Stravinsky, Christine Dunford as Hela and Arthenius, and David Catelyn as Pontius Pilate. The sound designer was Eric Hoffman. In The Master in Margarita, Satan and his retinue, including a seven foot tall skinny fella with a pond snare, an obnoxious cigar smoking black cat, and a beautiful naked vampire, visit Moscow in the 1920s, taking with them chaos and insanity wherever they go. Here is part one of The Master in Margarita presented by the Looking Glass Theatre Company. At the sunset hour of one warm spring day, two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds. The first of them aged about 40, dark-haired and balding. The other, a young man with curly reddish hair. What were we talking about? My poem. Ah yes, your poem. Yvonne, there is not one eastern religion in which an immaculate virgin does not bring a god into this world. You've written a marvellously satirical description of the birth of Jesus, but the whole joke lies in the fact that there were a whole series of sons of God before Jesus. Of course, none of them existed, including Jesus, but according to you... Sample complete. Ready to continue?