The Guys
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
By Bert Royal
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Extended! Aug. 5 – 29, 2010
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $24.50
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Winner!
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Most Consistently Surprising Actress – Meg Heimstead
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress, Reader's Poll Runner-Up – Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins, Meg Heimstead
Good Grief! Teens struggling with sex, death and identity
Jobsite presents the "unauthorized parody" that features America's favorite cartoon gang 10 years after the events of their 50-year old comic strip with the darkly comic and poignant Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.
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"A welcome antidote to the notion that the Peanuts gang provides merely a slice of American cuteness." – NY Times
When CB's dog dies from rabies, he begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too stoned to provide any coherent speculation. His sister has gone goth. His ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized, and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace.
But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group's bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion and sexual identity collide and careen toward an ending that's both haunting and hopeful.
"Inventive and raunchy…hysterically funny." – NY Post
In 2004, Dog Sees God was one of the breakout hits at the New York International Fringe Festival, winning the Excellence Award for Best Overall Production, as well as Theatermania's Play Award of 2004, the GLAAD Media Award for Best Off-Off-Broadway production, Broadway.com's 2006 Audience Award for Favorite Off-Broadway Production and the 2006 HX Award for Best Play.
"Dog Sees God doesn't feel like the same old high-school-warfare schlock. The characters – teenage and reckless – are both genuinely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel. Growing more hysterical – and more harrowing – as it flows to an inevitable, uncomfortable end, this taut comedy manages to make tired clichés about stoners and popular homecoming airheads funny and endearing." – NY Magazine.
About the Artists
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Dog Sees God features Shawn Paonessa as CB, Kari Goetz as CB's Sister, Jason Vaughan Evans as Van, Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins as Van's Sister, Richard Kennedy as Matt, Spencer Meyers as Beethoven, Meg Heimstead as Marcy and Katrina Stevenson as Tricia. Dog Sees God is directed by David M. Jenkins with a lighting and set design by Brian Smallheer.
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Dog Sees God has not been authorized or approved in any manner by the Charles M. Schulz Estate or United Features Syndicate, which have no responsibility for its content.
