Cry Havoc! “The Dogs of War” Unleash at Hollywood Fringe Festival ’15.
May 28, 2015
Los Angeles, California—May 28, 2015 – “The Dogs of War, Or, That’s What Friends Are For” plays at Theatre Asylum during the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June. Written and directed by Los Angeles playwright James Domine, “The Dogs of War” is a modern tale of gang warfare and romantic intrigue set in contemporary Los Angeles, showing in eight performances from June 6 to June 28.
The titular “Dogs of War” are a street gang, a motley band of profoundly dangerous individuals who lord over their corner of LA with swaggering impunity. When the play begins, they have just triumphed over their final rivals, and have no enemies left—except each other. Thematic threads of love and devotion, murder and revenge are woven together in a poetic tapestry that creates a mysterious and strange reality through imaginative and colorful use of language, at once philosophical and metaphoric. There’s the malevolent, knife-wielding shyster lawyer Lucretia, and her colleague Doc, the perpetually stoned
