The Flight

Interesting Facts

• In this work, the characters’ fates unfold against the backdrop of the turbulent and tragic events of the Civil War, where escape becomes not only a means of physical salvation but also a symbol of inner discord, despair, and the search for a lost world.
• The play is filled with the ghostly atmosphere of emigration: the characters, far from home, lose their footing, their past dissolves in the shimmering haze of memory, and the future seems an unattainable mirage.
• In "The Flight," the theme of dream and reality is especially vivid: reality and fantasy intertwine, their boundaries blur, and the characters seem to glide along the fragile surface of their fears and hopes.
• Bulgakov masterfully uses contrasts: luxury and poverty, hope and despair, love and loneliness—all are woven into the complex pattern of human destinies caught at the break of an era.
• The play is imbued with a sense of fatality: the characters, despite desperate attempts to break free from the cycle of events, become prisoners of their own fate, and flight becomes an eternal circle with no escape.