THEATRE + COMEDY

The Rice University - Department of Visual and Dramatic Art Theatre Program is teaming up with Rice Players to present Dog Sees God by Bert C. Royal. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead runs February 11 through February 19, 2011.

Ever wonder what happened when Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang grew up? What would happen to Charlie Brown if Snoopy was put to sleep because he killed Woodstock? In this funny, yet twisted black comedy, Bert C. Royal shows us just how much our favorite characters changed once adolescence hit.

"Good grief! The Peanuts kids have finally come out of their shells." —Time Out New York.

"A welcome antidote to the notion that the Peanuts gang provides merely a slice of American cuteness." —NY Times.

"…easily identifiable with the Peanuts crowd yet with a distinctly 'Royal' touch…The way Royal builds on the foundation of Charles Schulz's iconic comic strip actually results in a parody that's also a stand-alone play apt to resonate even with anyone belonging to that small population segment unfamiliar with Peanuts." —CurtainUp.

"Inventive and raunchy…hysterically funny." —NY Post.

"Bert V. Royal is the playwright of the Off-Broadway show DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD and is he ready to confess all!" —Broadway.com.

"DOG SEES GOD doesn't feel like the same old high-school-warfare schlock. The characters—teenage and reckless—are both genuinely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel. Growing more hysterical—and more harrowing—as it flows to an inevitable, uncomfortable end, this taut comedy manages to make tired clichés about stoners and popular homecoming airheads funny and endearing." —NY Magazine.