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"The play the BUSH administration DID NOT WANT YOU TO SEE!!"

POONA THE FUCKDOG

and other plays for children

by Jeff Goode

copyright © 1999
"You know I'm totally taking my kid" ---Orange County Weekly
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Poona is published by Original Works
Poona is published by Original Works

"irresistable"
---New York Times

"a bawdy comic romp!"
---LA Weekly

"smart, bold, and insightful, poignant without being preachy and meaningful without being sappy. Not to mention shit-yourself hysterical. Two hours of theater magic that will go down in infamy. "
---The Stranger, Seattle

"a theatrical acid trip!"
---New City, Chicago

"a freshly uncorked bottle of Champagne that never goes flat!"
---River Front Times

"You know I'm totally taking my kid"
---Orange County Weekly

"Like an early Marx Brothers movie, the comedy comes from any, and every direction, and it's just as nutty."
---Show Business Weekly

"true brilliance"
---Las Vegas CitySearch

"You have to like a show this complex and fast paced that never flies into chaos"
---Chicago Reader

"Raucous, funny, and anything but politically correct. It is a guaranteed laugh. A comedic success."
---Electronic Link Off-Broadway

"delightful... a perverted funhouse ride where people give you lollipops and cookies"
---Matinee Magazine

"a quite brilliant theatrical mess"
---Chicago Tribune

"marvelously inventive... dazzling... don't miss out by missing it"
---Las Vegas CityLife

"a refreshing scamper through modern-day mores and social customs"
---Las Vegas Review-Journal

"What a show! Outstanding!"
---RedCard.Com

"hilarious... Peppered with puns and Stoppardesque word play"
---Seattle Press

"delightful... unforgettable... much more fun than it ought to be."
---The New Yorker

"smart"
---The New York Theatre Experience

"mean-spirited and sophomoric!"
---Seattle Weekly

"gleeful... goofy... the perfect title."
---Time Out New York

"It would be hard to imagine anyone resisting its charms"
---Matinee Magazine

"Smart and clever, and always un-PC. You're in for a good, albeit twisted belly- laugh."
---DigitalCity Washington, DC

"Goode [is] a smarty-pants theater cult-god"
---Northern California Bohemian

These outrageous "Fairy tales for Grown-ups" are not for the easily offended! Poona, our ingenuous heroine, meets up with aliens, talking shrubs, and mealy-mouthed salesmen in her quest to find someone to play in her big pink box. Nothing is sacred in this raucous assault on the power of language.
Cast Size: 8-17 (depends on doubling)
Running Time: 90-120 minutes
 
 
 

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The play the Bush Administration did not want you to see!
    "Bitten by the Fuckdog" - Chicago Reader (9/24/04)
    "Curtains" - Willamette Week (10/20/04 - cover story)
    "Dispiriting Journey" - American Theatre Web (10/20/04)
    "Too risqué for Bush's NEA" - The Advocate (10/27/04)
    "The White House vs. Poona the Fuckdog" - The Stranger (10/28/04)
"Oh no, that would be explicit and inappropriate, and my federal funding prevents me from doing anything that might be educational or helpful to you later in life. But if you'd like a sandwich. Or a copy of the New Testament?"
CRITICS can't stop yapping about about Poona:
Poona the T-Shirt
New Poona t-shirts from Boston!!

Reviews

Poetry (about Poona found on the internet)

Published Excerpts from Poona the Fuckdog and other plays for children can be found in: The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1998 (Smith and Kraus)

Poona the Fuckdog is available on videotape from StageDirect

Suzy-Suzy Cyber-ssassin (from Poona) was a finalist for the 2000 Heideman Award (Actors Theatre of Louisville)

For actual plays for children and young audiences, be sure to visit the "JeffNet for Kids" at: kids.jeffgoode.com
see also: Gary Cole's Artless: The Odyssey of a Cultural Creative