08 Jun 2010

A Dog's Heart, Het Muziektheatre, Amsterdam

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8ab066ec-7313-11df-ae73-00144feabdc0.html

By Shirley Apthorp [Financial Times, 8 June 2010]

What does it take to be human? Surgeon Philipp Philippovich transplants a human pituitary gland and testicles into a dog. Within a week, the creature is playing the balalaika, smoking and demanding the evening paper.