Magdanas Donkey

This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market Once in their mothers absence the children sixyearold Mikho and threeyearold Kato found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village The foundling was fed tended and the moment the donkey opened its big tender eyes it was named Lurdja which means blueeyed Surrounded by love and care the donkey became a big help in the poor household But this idyll was not to last long