Bluegrass tall tale about the Jersey Devil with live music and an 8′ wearable puppet
Featuring: Alex Dawson, Dan Diana, Arlan Fieles, and Jackie Fogel.
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.
For info and pics, visit TheDevilandDaisyDirt.blogspot.com.
“Riveting and one-of-a-kind!” (Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger’s Daughter), “Stunning! Jim Henson meets Johnny Cash!” (Lev Grossman, The Magicians, The Bright Sword), “Amazing! It will absolutely blow your mind!” (Jersey Is the World), “Very weird and very Jersey! See it to believe it!” (Weird New Jersey), “Fantastic! See this play if you can!”(Brian and Wendy “Mother of Yoda” Froud, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth), “Mesmerizing. Wildly inventive and totally unmissable.” (Sophie White, Where I End), “Beautiful. Incredible.” (Adrien Beau, The Vourdalak), “The hero we need. Very cool and all kinds of fun!” (Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians), “A wild ride! Leathery and magical! Dawson is the Chuck Norris of story-telling.” (Clay McLeod Chapman, Ghost Eaters, Wendell & Wild), “Brilliant! Half creature feature, half country song!” (Lee Pfeifer, Cinema Retro), “Incredible! Amazing! Chucky would be jealous.” (Tom Holland, Fright Night, Child’s Play), “Dawson is the OG Jersey Devil. A twisted yarn that could only happen in my home state.” (Mike Edison, Raunch Hands, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go), “Gripping. Captivating. Reminiscent of Shel Silverstein’s epic poems.” (Fears Mag), “Powerful, poetic, and really strange!” (Will Rogers, Earth Break, Blackwood, Guide to the Unknown).
Event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
