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Heart of a Dog
When: Tuesday 5th February 2013 -> Saturday 9th February 2013 - 19:30
Where: Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road Canton, Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF5 1QE
The story centres around Sharik a stray mongrel, starved, and on the verge of death when he finds himself being rescued by the world-famous rejuvenation therapist Professor Philip Philipovich. Sharik comes to find that life is good as a gentleman’s dog, but the Professor has other plans then a life of luxury for Sharik…
A rich, successful Moscow professor Befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctively worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare.
Heart of a dog was written in the wake of the Russian civil war. An allegorical tale about the dangers of social engineering, euthanasia, and scientific malpractice, it was deemed too subversive for publication in Russia until 1987.
Despite the book being a staple in the classics’ section of bookstores internationally, this is one of the very few times the book has been brought to the stage. A unique opportunity to see a tale with a distinctive modernist feel, yet with a message equally relevant to contemporary society.