That was an odd play, Charlie Brown

[jethrien]

We saw Dog Sees God last night. Odd. Very odd.

It's about the Peanuts crew in high school. It starts with Snoopy getting rabies and killing Woodcrest and having to be put down. It goes from there into sex, drugs, and pyromania.

Parts were really funny. Other parts, not so much. The whole thing felt like what Swimming Upstream wanted to grow up to be - funny satire about high school that suddenly swerves into Saturday afternoon special territory with pathos and inspirational message. Thing is, you pretty much get the feeling that the writer still hasn't gotten over high school yet.

But it meant that we got spit on by America Ferrera, Eddie Kaye Thomas (from American Pie), and Eliza Dushku (from Buffy). (We we literally in the front row.)

Good grief.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Oh God, Tricia's voice was painful. What the hell were they thinking?

I thought the way they did the names was very clever, considering the show wasn't endorsed by Schulz's estate and was probably tap-dancing on the line of copyright infringement. Charlie Brown was only called by that name once, and was otherwise "CB", "Charles" or "Chuck B". Linus went by his middle name, Pigpen got a real name, Schroder got a nickname, Pattie became Tricia, and Sally and Lucy both became "___'s sister." Clever.

[hyouneko.livejournal.com]

Actually, Van isn't Linus's middle name. It's Linus and Lucy Van Pelt. It's just the first part of his last name.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Could go either way. Sometimes Van (or Von) is considered a middle name, sometimes it's part of a last name. Ludwig V. Beethovan, anyone? A friend of mine from high school had the middle name Farmer--her mother's maiden name, because they didn't want to hyphenate, but wanted to pass on both names.