Knee High Theater - The Dead Dog in a Suitcase

• Words by the director
• People today live in a fast moving life
• Brecht - 2 scenes simultaneously
• In the play, some scenes were 3 scenes simultaneously
• Brecht moments
• See characters changing - audience is aware
• realize we are watching a play 
• Simultaneous scenes 
• Upstairs and downstairs
• Use of songs 
• Felt more like a Brecht musical
• Songs commenting on the scenes
• Criticism of politics
• life sucks man sucks 
• commenting on elements of life
• corruption of life 
• Finale - "Bring it all down!" 
• visual reminder 
• puppets were reminders
• All reminders are processing - wants the audience to go away with
• Unbelievably dark and tragic 
• Creating the musical process 
• Company always have props - idea room
• At one point, actors built shrines for characters