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An Hour and a Half Filled with Death, Sex, Drugs, Violence, and Homosexuality? Good GRIEF!

Snoopy killed Woodstock and in turn, is, well, killed / "put down" / call it what you will. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Brian Allard, is an Bert Royal's unauthorized take on what happens to Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang after Snoopy dies – a work so unlicensed that the playwright changed all of the characters' names, presumably to avoid lawsuits; to avoid confusion I've changed them right back.

The play opens with sexually-confused Charlie Brown* (Noah Goldenberg) and his Goth/ Wiccan / Christian / gangsta / some-combination-of-them-all sister, Sally, (Kaia Hillier) burying Snoopy before the re-introducing the audience to a re-imagined pubescent cast of all your favorite PEANUTS characters — Linus (Tristyn Chipps) is like that one guy from high school who is stoned 95% of the time — the kind of person who will get stoned and do yoga and read Buddhist philosophy. Beethoven (Joel Durham) still plays the piano and is s ridiculed and picked on for presumably being gay.

Peppermint Patty (Becca Anderson) and Marcie (Lissie Lewis) are the drunken sluts, the kind of girls in school that you would enter a room and they would just start laughing and make you feel horrible. And, then there is Pigpen (Nathan Daniels), the overtly homophobic, sex crazed cokehead, with a severe case of germophobia. The play is, in my opinion, already a success with its reimagining of these well-known characters, intertwined with issues of teenage suicide, alienation, premarital sex / sexual identity, drug use, and raging homophobia. Despite a preachy ending (Bert V. Royal's fault, not anyone else's), the play was definitely hilarious, worthwhile, and memorable theatrical experience.

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Friday, July 30, 7:30 pm

Saturday, July 31, 7:30 pm

Sunday, August 1, 2:00 pm + 7:30 pm

$10 Students, Educators, Groups 8+, CoHo Subscribers / $18 Adults (tickets available at door)

CoHo Theater
2257 NW Raleigh St.

Portland, OR 97210