Bleak Week

The Plague Dogs

Sunday, June 7, 2026 | 7:00pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 6:30pm

Standard ticket prices
Tickets available online in advance, at our box office during open hours, or at the door (if tickets remain).

This fascinating follow-up from the team behind 1978’s landmark Watership Down follows lab test dogs Snitter and Rowf, who jailbreak from their lives of abuse and torture in a secret testing facility only to find that the outside world is even more bleak.

Since the dogs accidentally broke a vial used by plague researchers on their way out, the human world launches a lethal hunt. Here is a world where animals are not a blank slate for our ideals and morality, but are the direct expression of the animals themselves; Humanity’s the bad guy, and the audience is not left off the hook. Featuring a slew of top-tier British voice talents: John Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Judy Geeson, and Patrick Stewart.

Make sure to leave the kids (and pets) at home for this rarely-screened masterpiece of arthouse animation whose haunting memory will never leave you.

Bleak Week

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history. Browse films in this series