Filed under: Dog Sees God Reviews, Secret Rose Theater | Tags: Bert V. Royal writer, Jon Cortez director, Play Coming to NoHo Arts District, Plays in North Hollywood
“Dog Sees God- Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead”, a play by Bert V. Royal and Directed by Jon Cortez, starts its North Hollywood run on July 17th for 18 performances at The Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood, California.
When “Dog Sees God” appreared off-Broadway Variety said the following about the play…”Dog’s” appropriation of the teen movie idiom has given a contemporary makeover to the iconic American cartoon stirip. And the metamorphoses undergone by the characters in the roller-coaster years since puberty hit. The play uses as its springboard the stream-of-conciousness reflection of CB, following the death of his beloved beagle.
Flanking the introspective blockhead are his familiar childhood cohorts, some of them more radically altered by adolescence than others. Once a precocious, carefree kid, CB’s sister is now an outsider, a brooding wiccan goth expressing herself through bad performance art. The Linus-like Van is now a stoner whos quasi-intellectual philosophizing is now hopelessly clouded by primo weed, which he mixed with the ashes of his security blanket.
The blanket bonfire is one in a string of arsonist incidents that have landed the CB’s sister in a padded cell far removed from the stand where she once charged 5 cents for psychiatric advice. But the doctor is still in, and even in seclusion the crabby bully of the gang can still make her influence felt.
Having evolved from tomboy and bespectacled geek, respectively, into Tricia and Marcie, this tartlet duo who mix vodka with their juice boxes, delight in dissing their classmates and are not averse to some three-way action with Matt, who has traded his aura of pig-pen like filth for germphobic obsessiveness and his happy go lucky ways for uptight homophobic agression, viciously targeting the ostracized, piano playing Beethoven.”
Performances begin July 17th at the Secret Rose Theater in N. Hollywood’s NoHo arts district. http://www.secretrose.com
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