Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
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Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is a play produced by Dede Harris and directed by Trip Cullman, whose characters are the characters from Peanuts as young adults. The play features a grown-up Charlie Brown, called C.B. throughout most of the play. Pig-Pen features as Matt, C.B.'s now germaphobic, homophobic, misogynistic best friend. Beethoven (who is based on 'Schroeder' from the original comic strip) gives a heart-breaking performance, managing to elicit sympathy because of what he experienced in his childhood while, at the same time, garnering laughs for his over-the-top yet perfectly executed mannerisms and speech patterns.
Tricia (Peppermint Patty) and Marcie are a pair of overgrown Barbie dolls (probably the most surprising transformations of the bunch), Lucy is a pyromaniac drama queen locked up in a mental institution for setting the Little Red-Haired Girl's hair on fire, and Linus (called 'Van') is the token pothead, having smoked his own blanket (after Lucy and C.B. burned his blanket up and gave him the ashes (C.B.: 'Three words, dude: pubic. Lice. Infestation.'), he 'rolled the ashes up with some good weed and smoked 'em.' He concludes with this piece of golden wit: 'Now my blanket and I will be forever as one.').
[edit] Cast
- Eddie Kaye Thomas as CB (parallels Charlie Brown in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- America Ferrera as CB's sister (parallels Sally Brown in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- Logan Marshall-Green as Beethovan (parallels Schroeder in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- Ian Somerhalder as Matt (parallels Pig-Pen in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- Keith Nobbs as Van (parallels Linus in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- Kelli Garner as Tricia (parallels Peppermint Patty in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- Ari Graynor as Marcy (parallels Marcie in the original Peanuts comic strip).
- Eliza Dushku as Van's sister (parallels Lucy in the original Peanuts comic strip).
Written by Bert V. Royal
[edit] Awards
In 2004 it 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.
