WHAT

 

 

"Mysterious and mystical... immersive and emotional...a greasy spoon feminist anthem for the winged but wounded!" 

- Jackie Jardine, Fangoria

 "Spellbinding!" (Kevin Smith, Dogma); "haunting!" (The Philadelphia Inquirer); "weird and wonderful!" (Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water w. Guillermo del Toro): "a mesmerizing, Pine Barrens fever dream!" (Asbury Park Press); "a BADASS (caps theirs) vaudeville show!" (Rue Morgue Magazine); "NJ's hottest theater ticket!" (94.3, The Point); a "helluva hoedown!" (The Aquarian), "mysterious and mystical... a greasy spoon feminist anthem for the winged but wounded... an immersive and surprisingly emotional experience" (Fangoria), "absolutely stunning!" (Reactor), and "the most original, Jersey-centric and downright weird presentation in our state’s theatrical history!” (Weird New Jersey). 

 

"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

 
Wait, what the Devil is this? It's a folk horror fairy-tale about the Jersey Devil with live music and an 8' puppet. A gothic mix of storytelling, theater, vaudeville, back porch session, and puppet pageant. Think Pine Barrens “Our Town” meets bluegrass 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.  Plus magic meat, woodland witches, an enchanted bullet, and an eating contest with supernatural rewards. All backed by a high lonesome sound.

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.

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CAST

Alex Dawson - Narrator, Tasty Murder, Euphemia Evergreen, assorted.

Dan Diana - Devil

Arlan Feiles - Balladeer

 Jackie Fogel - Daisy Dirt

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CREATIVES

Alex Dawson - Concept, Writer, Director, Design, Producer

Dan Diana -  Fabricator, Puppeteer, Producer

Arlan Feiles & Alex Dawson - Music and Lyrics

Arlan Feiles - Musical Director and Arrangements