Nights at the Stray Dog Cafe

Auteur

Don Nigro is one of the most widely published and produced playwrights in the world. Of his more than 400 plays, Samuel French has published 194 in 57 volumes, and those not yet published are available in manuscript at the Samuel French website. Three new volumes, Nights At The Stray Dog Café, A Snowfall In Berlin and Traven And Other Plays were published in the summer of 2016. His work has been translated into many languages and produced all over the world. Recent productions include The Chaplin Plays: A Double Feature, in New York; Don Giovanni in Moscow; City Of Dreadful Night in Los Angeles; Animal Tales in Ukraine; A History Of The Devil in Mexico City; and a film of The Weird Sisters, produced in Berlin.

Texte du rabat

During the German bombardment of Leningrad, earlier and now St. Petersburg, the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, struck on the head by a falling brick, stumbles into a basement for shelter and finds herself unexpectedly back at the long abandoned site of the Stray Dog Café, where in the second decade of the twentieth century the most famous Russian poets, artists, actors, and dancers gathered to drink, sing, argue, and make love, and gradually the Stray Dog comes to life again, when