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"There is no one remotely like Alex Dawson in Gothic New Jersey or anywhere else. A riveting, one-of-a-kind storyteller." - Joyce Carol Oates, Butcher
A BLUEGRASS TALL TALE WITH LIVE MUSIC AND AN 8' PUPPET!
Sure, you've seen Bruce at The Stone Pony and your dad went to the same high school as Bon Jovi. You've been to Maxwell's, Hurricane Harbor, and The Gates of Hell. You know that Taylor Ham and Pork Roll are the same thing and what a grease truck Fat Cat is. You have a favorite diner, deli, bagel shop. You've thrown up on NJ Transit, eaten a tube steak in an inner tube on the Delaware, lost a tooth on the Cannonball Loop, and spent the night inside Lucy the Elephant...
BUT.
Have you seen the bluegrass, Jersey Devil tall tale Weird NJ calls "the most original, Jersey-centric and downright weird presentation in our state's theatrical history"? No? C'mon! I mean, how Jersey are you? Don't miss the singular event Rue Morgue Magazine calls: "a BADASS vaudeville show that marries music, theater, and gnarly monster effects!" As heard on WNYC! As seen on the cover of Weird New Jersey!
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THE DEVIL & DAISY DIRT: A GARDEN STATE GOTHIC EVENT
FEATURING: Alex Dawson, Dan Diana, Arlan Feiles, and Jackie Fogel
LOGLINE: Folk Horror E.T.
PITCH: Think Pine Barrens Our Town meets cryptid E.T., with a shoulder-shot Jersey Devil instead of a stranded extraterrestrial, deer hunters instead of federal agents, and a portal that opens above the Apple Pie Hill fire tower after a midnight lightning strike instead of an alien mothership shaped like a Christmas tree ornament. All backed by a high lonesome sound.
SYNOPSIS: On the night of an annual appetite contest called "I 8 the Devil," Daisy Dirt finds something strange - winged and antlered, wounded but alive - in the dumpster behind Lucille's Luncheonette (aka the Devil's Diner). With the help of a Piney palm reader named Effie and a piece of magic muscle meat from the basement game locker, Daisy evades a villainous poacher named Tasty (Murder) and risks everything to save it.
RUN TIME: 1 hr.
RATING: PG13.
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WHO: ALEX DAWSON (writer/director/narrator) is a professor at Rutgers University where he teaches creative writing with a focus on the dark fantastic. ARLAN FIELES (composer/balladeer) is an internationally touring Asbury Park folk singer who has recorded with the likes of Tom Dowd and Levon Helm. DAN DIANA (fabricator/puppeteer) was a special effects artist in Hollywood for almost a decade, working on mostly Marvel movies; he built the battered Iron Man helmet in Avengers Endgame. Also with JACKIE FOGEL (Daisy Dirt).
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| Dan Diana (Jersey Devil) and Jackie Fogel (Daisy Dirt) - Photo Credit: Mike Dolan. |
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