By Éadaoin O’Donoghue, (Transplanted from Mikhail Bulgakov)
An absurd and superbly comic odyssey.
Éadaoin O’Donoghue’s play, inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece novel, is a fierce parable, a Frankenstein fable, that’s as funny as it is terrifying. The adventures of a scroungy mongrel named Sharik, who in a gruesome scientific experiment, is turned into a man. A vivid exploration of what it means to be human, and animal – with joy, pain, love, loss, faith, ecstasy, despair, sex, beauty, wickedness, music, dancing, humour, and cats.
Presented by: The Civic, John O’Brien and The Everyman as part of Dublin Theatre Festival
Running Time: 95 mins. No interval
Age Suitability 15+
Cast and Creative Team
Starring: Derbhle Crotty, Matthew O’Brien, Steve Blount, Michael Grennell, Karen McCartney and Cathy White
Playwright Éadaoin O’Donoghue
Director and Co-Composer John O’Brien
Set and Costume Designer Lisa Zagone
Sound Designer and Co-Composer Peter Power
Choreographer Philip Connaughton
LC Designer Stephen Dodd
Casting Director Amy Rowan
Trigger Warnings: References to sex and violence
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Funded by The Arts Council
