Good Grief! You Never Expected This.

Online, July 18, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Victoria, B.C. - Black Box Productions presents Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead running at the Victoria Event Centre throughout the 24th Victoria International Fringe Festival.

CB's beloved Beagle has been put down, and everything has gone to hell. His sister has gone goth, his blanket wielding companion is too stoned out to offer any advice, and his piano playing buddy might be gay!

Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip always smuggled conflict and existential dread into the lives of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a host of lovable scamps. Had Schultz not been a genius of comic storytelling, it might simply have been the dreary saga of a misfit boy who was constantly getting screwed over by his crummy friends and anthropomorphic dog. Bert V. Royal's play; Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is an unauthorized parody of the beloved Peanuts Gang that builds upon Schulz's emotionally fraught groundwork. Following the gang ten years after the events of the fifty-year running comic strip; your childhood comic strip heros are found struggling with drugs, sex, and life. The beloved Peanuts kids have grown up; boy have they ever.

Dog Sees God is a campy dark comedy that thrusts the audience into the hormone-infused life of a group of friends while they are faced with the troubles of teenage life. Originally premiered in August 2004 at the New York Fringe Festival, Dog Sees God has since gone on to be produced internationally. Featuring a talented Victoria cast led by Pat Rundell and Heather Jarvie, including Jack FM's Matt Williams, Amy Lee-Radigan, Liam Schneider, Andrew Barrett, Erin Rogers, and Sarah Koury.

Dog Sees God takes an unflinching look at many issues and the root causes of teen bullying, but more importantly, it also offers real solutions and hard-fought hope for the future. Tickets for this hilarious dark comedy playing at Venue 5; The Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad Street) are $11/Door.

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