 |
GetTextbooks.com
Compare Prices & Save up to 90% |
|
|
|
| Login | Sign up | Settings | My Wish List |
 | | Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal ISBN-10: 9780822221524 ISBN-10: 0-8222-2152-7 ISBN-13: 9780822221524 ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-2152-4 Paperback 2007-03-22 Dramatists Play Service Find Lowest Price |
Reviews | ||
Welcome to Your Future, CB. You sure you want to go there? Burt Royal brings the Peanuts Gang into the 21st century, and it's not a pretty sight. The characters are recognizable as Peanuts analogs, not just from their names but from their habits and tendencies; even the characters who are merely mentioned (Franklin, Freida, The Little Red-Haired Girl) make sense from the minimal descriptions given them. Only the Beethoven character requires some work for his character to make sense. The plot of the play involves CB mourning his dead dog, trying to figure out the meaning of life and trying to do right by someone he had known before some troubles threw him into the "Violently Outcast" category. His friends are unable to answer or mourn, and his attempt to right things goes mortally wrong. As long as the characters stay in their stage reality by using their stage names the action seems to drift from dysfunction to dysfunction. Every thing that could go wrong with Teenagers today, from drinking to eating problems to extreme navel-gazing to bullying to cattiness to lazy religiosity is hit, one at a time with each character. As stage names resolve into Peanuts names, however, the stage reality slips off with painful consequences for all involved. And the final scene will throw all but the darkest of hearts into tears. The major drawback to the play is that the character depiction seems to require a bit too much of an early 2000's understanding of teenager behavior, and of that only what people consider wrong with kids nowadays. The characters (Outside of CB) seem unable to do more than pay attention to their selves; hence the turn to the worse when one character gets forced out of his stage reality by a name said by another character (One Word: Pigpen). Having said that, the play is an interesting window into how the Peanuts characters could have evolved had they been allowed to become adolescents. While the subject matter definitely requires a certain level of tolerance or maturity (or willingness to let things develop), there is some hopefulness in the outcome. CB does get some accolades from family and friends, and even a letter from his Pen-Pal. Not an all-out five-star (don't like what's happened to the Peanuts gang, at least according to Royal), but definitely worth buying (and doing on stage). | ||
wow Dog Sees God was quite the sequel to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Guessing that the real Lucy wrote it. It did not get 5 stars from me, because it would not pass as a High School production in these changing times, as we did in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. If you are easily offended, don't go there | ||
Pottymouth Peanuts Clever in its attempts to continue the Peanuts universe into adolesence. Filled with angst and profanity galore, this play seeks to teach valuable lessons to the audience... be who you are, stay true to your friends, and do what you can to put an end to bullying and harrassment. My only complaint is that the play was unnessarily vulgar in MANY places. It's as though the author wanted to shock instead of explore. | ||
Peanuts for the New Millenium This play is a hilarious take on the Peanuts gang with a heart-wrenching ending. It's a true look at becoming an adult today, a must read. | ||
Dog Sees God Review Arrived on time and great condition. Best play I have read, I recommend it highly. | ||