Neta J. Rose and Aida Keykhaii in Heart of a Dog, Next Stage Festival

Presented by Nowadays Theatre

Heart of a Dog, is a filmed remount of Mohammad Yaghoubi’s adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov—a satire of communism that was written in 1925, but went unpublished until the late 1980s. The work has been quite extensively adapted into film, opera and theatre, but Yaghoubi’s treatment adds an added layer of social commentary—taking aim at religious oppression in Iran. Continue Reading