Collaborators

First performed in 2012 with Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale, if you love your comedies dark, clever and razor sharp funny, Collaborators is the play for you.

Set against a super-stylised background of truth, playwright Mikhail Bulgakov has to write a play about the young Stalin in honour of the dictator’s forthcoming 60th birthday. The only problem is that Bulgakov hates him and everything for which he stands. Help, however, comes from a very unlikely source when, unbeknown to the Secret Police, Stalin himself decides to help out in the writing of the play… so long as Bulgakov takes over running the country!