Dog Logic
This dark comedy is... well, Doggone Good! It is a hilarious but disturbing study of devotion to ideals in the face of urban sprawl. Hertell Daggett (Josh Jabas) is the physical and spiritual caretaker of the pet cemetery he inherited from his father. His solitude is shattered by an aspiring real estate magnate (Ian Fyfield), an ex- wife (Stacy Poirier), and his long lost mother (Meri Golden)... presumed dead but actually living in Sacramento... each of them is determined to turn the property into a shopping mall.
The actors do a impressive job with this play, and one of the big reasons they can is due to the epic script by Thomas Strelich. The writing is a magnificent tour of ideas that paraphrase some of the most familiar thoughts in the English language from those in "that Scottish play" to pop music... and you feel Joni Mitchell's, "They paved a paradise and put up a parking lot..." pulsating in the background of every scene.
Hertell's fight to protect the 40 burnt-out acres from the forces of real estate Californication is a mix of the sublime and surreal -- dinosaurs, cave men, Egyptians, Godzilla and gospel music to answer the primal question: What makes man(woman)kind different than all the other animals? We get the answer thanks to the terrific direction of Miriam Monasch who got the best out of this cast so the actors could gift us with their best performances.
The actors do a impressive job with this play, and one of the big reasons they can is due to the epic script by Thomas Strelich. The writing is a magnificent tour of ideas that paraphrase some of the most familiar thoughts in the English language from those in "that Scottish play" to pop music... and you feel Joni Mitchell's, "They paved a paradise and put up a parking lot..." pulsating in the background of every scene.
Hertell's fight to protect the 40 burnt-out acres from the forces of real estate Californication is a mix of the sublime and surreal -- dinosaurs, cave men, Egyptians, Godzilla and gospel music to answer the primal question: What makes man(woman)kind different than all the other animals? We get the answer thanks to the terrific direction of Miriam Monasch who got the best out of this cast so the actors could gift us with their best performances.