By Brendon Johnson ‘16 / Champlain College News
The Champlain College Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 schedule that will include Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Radio Champlain: The Gift of the Magi, the annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, and will close its season with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. All Champlain Theatre performances are open to the public.
The first production of the season, Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, will open on Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Champlain College’s Alumni Auditorium. Performances run through Nov. 16, with an additional showing at 2:00 p.m. In Royal’s comedic drama, we meet a group of high school students who struggle with the usual challenges—bullying, sexual identity, self-identity, loyalty, deception, and even death. CB, the protagonist, struggles with questions about mortality and life’s purpose after the death of his dog. In questioning who he is, we see how CB sometimes takes his actions to the extreme. By the end, he still doesn’t know the kind of person he would like to be, but he is resolved to figure it out. Continue reading →