Romanian-American Studio Theater Presents Cătălina Florescu's Timely "Suicidal Dog & Laika"

RCI’s recently launched theatrical series, The Romanian-American Studio Theater, continues with the reading of the stimulating political tragicomedy, ”Suicidal Dog & Laika”, by protean author and academic Cătălina Florina Florescu, under the direction of Olga Levina and featuring an all-American cast. The play imagines a surrealist, and utterly revealing, encounter between an immigrant hound and the famous astronaut dog Laika, dead in space a long time ago, whose often hilarious exchanges illuminate some of today’s most pressing issues as well as the current challenges to remain, well, human in a world gone astray.

SUICIDAL DOG & LAIKA (staged reading)

Written by Cătălina Florina Florescu

Directed by Olga Levina

With: Michael Bernardi, Russ DiBello, Oliver Fishman, Leo Grinberg, Tara Henderson, Natalia Volkodaeva, Sam Yazbeck

”The Iron Curtain would come down soon (and) I knew that political regimes and doctrines could harm people badly, like a contagious disease. I promised myself to refuse to…