Sure, you’ve seen Bruce at The Stone Pony and one of your parents 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. You have a favorite diner, deli, bagel place. You’ve thrown up on NJ Transit, eaten a tube steak in an inner tube bobbing down the Delaware, and spent the night inside Lucy the Elephant, the country’s only pachyderm pad.
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 this singular experience! As heard on WNYC! As seen in Weird New Jersey! Catch the Devil! (Before it catches you.)
A bluegrass tall tale about the Jersey Devil with live music and an 8′ wearable puppet. 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.
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.
What critics are saying:
“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)
“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), “Gripping. Captivating. Reminiscent of Shel Silverstein’s epic poems.” (Fears Mag)
Woodbridge Township presents The Devil & Daisy Dirt at The Avenel Performing Arts Center with support from Woodbridge Arts.
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