Приглашаем вас на американскую премьеру спектакля "Собачье сердце" по одноименному произведению Михаила Булгакова.

Спектакль поставлен на английском языке.

Transcending “man bites dog,” man is dog in Bulgakov’s classic novella Heart of a Dog, the story of a dog turned into a man by science, with less than stellar results. Adapted for the stage and directed by Michael Franco, this stage version of Heart of a Dog had its world premiere at the Bulgakov International Festival in Kiev , Ukraine in September of 2002. In a classic clash of ideology and morality, representatives of two cultures struggle to find their place in Stalin’s new Russia; the post-revolutionary worker thrown into the unfamiliar role of governing, and the pre-revolutionary professor trying to hold onto his old world while attempting to make sense of the new one. Heart of a Dog was the first of Bulgakov’s works to be seized and banned for its scathing social satire. It was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.

When an elegant, upper-crust professor rescues a stray dog, the dog thinks he’s been given a golden new life—until the professor implants parts of a criminal into him. As he slowly begins to turn into a man (and a truly abominable man at that), the professor is horrified to discover that his creation gets along very well with the proletariat committee attempting to force him to share his luxurious apartment. He begins to consider ways to reverse the procedure…


Mikhail Bulgakov (author) was born in Kiev in 1891 and was trained as a doctor. After 10 years (1919-1929) of writing plays, novels and short stories, production of all of his plays was abandoned after negative comments by Stalin. Though he petitioned several times for permission to leave the Soviet Union , he was never allowed to do so. He continued to write, but none of his works were published or performed in complete versions after 1927. He died in 1940.

Michael Franco (adaptor and director) also adapted and produced Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita for Zoo District in 2000, garnering LA Weekly, Garland , LADCC and Ovation Awards. As a long-time producer for Zoo District, Michael produced the critically acclaimed and award winning Nosferatu…Angel of the Final Hour, Pathe-X, The Slow and Painful Death of Sam Shepard, Uppa Creek and Hellcab.

Cast members include: Paul Dillon, Loren Lazerine, Joe Fria, Lara Phillips, Laura Pruden, Rob Brink, Galit Levi, Jeffrey Emerson, Kim Chueh, Jeri Tubbs, Bill McCormack, Michael Mueller, Dean Jacobson, Tina Gloss, Michelle LaVan, Andrew Hamrick, Allison Evans.

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