6 Actors plus optional musicians. Genders are mostly flexible but the harmonies work best with a cast of 3 male and 3 female actors.

Roles:

• MC Dog (aka the Latecomer)
• Red Dog
• Blue Dog
• Yellow Dog
• Green Dog
• Hattie (also plays Spotted Dog)
• Musicians

Available in 60-minute or 90-minute versions.

Bilingual version available for productions starting in June 2025.

The following resources are included in each performance license:

• Permission to photocopy PDF script/score for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.
• Demo audio files with vocals for rehearsal
• Permission to utilize illustrations from the original book for promotional purposes.

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:

• Performance audio files for backtracking, underscoring, and sound effects.

Allison Gregory's plays for young audiences have been seen at some of the country's leading theatres, and include Go, Dog. Go!,adapted from the P.D. Eastman book and co-written with Steven Dietz;Even Steven Goes to War ("Zoni" Best New Script Award, AATE and UPRP awards, Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices series); Peter and the Wolf (Footlight Award, Best New Play; National Tour with Childsplay, Inc.); Brementown Musicians; andJunie B. in Jingle Bells,Batman Smells!.Her plays for adults includeForcing Hyacinths(Julie Harris Playwright Award, South Coast Repertory Theatre's California Playwright's Award); Fall Off Night(Garland Award, L.A.);Cliffhouse; Burning Bridget Cleary (Footlight Award, Best New Play, Seattle). She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, ACT in Seattle, The Skirball-Kenis Foundation, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Childsplay, Inc. Along with her husband, playwright/director Steven Dietz, and her two children, she splits her time between Austin and Seattle.

Learn more about Allison atwww.allisongregoryplays.com

Steven Dietz's plays for young audiences includeHONUS AND ME(adapted from Dan Gutman),GO, DOG. GO!(adapted from P.D. Eastman; co-written with Allison Gregory),STILL LIFE WITH IRIS(awarded the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays Award) andTHE REMEMBERER(adapted from Joyce Simmons Cheeka). These plays have been seen at some of America's leading theatres for young people, including Seattle Children's Theatre, The Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Childsplay (AZ), Dallas Children's Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and the Chicago Children's Theatre. Mr. Dietz has directed the world premieres of Kevin Kling'sLILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE(CTC) and Allison Gregory'sEVEN STEVEN GOES TO WAR(Childsplay), among many others. He lives with his wife, playwright Allison Gregory, and their two children in Austin, where he teaches playwriting at the University of Texas.

Originally produced by Seattle Children's Theatre in the 2002-2003 season

A Note from the creators:

“This play is adapted from a book renowned for its ability to generate fun, learning, adventure and surprise with a minimum of text. It honors the joyous simplicity of the world around us. Therefore, in the making of this play, it is not our intention to “fill out” or “open up” the story in the style of many traditional adaptations. “Expanding the book” in this way would, we believe, rob it of its essential wondrous and loopy anarchy. Instead, we hope to celebrate and explore the existing words and pictures; to look not “outside the book,” but more closely “within it” – in the way that a child can page through Mr. Eastman’s book night after night and find something remarkable and new with each subsequent reading. We have chosen, therefore, to play inside the story – to explore the buckets of bliss, wonder, longing and discovery that are waiting for us, for all of us, there.” -playwrights, Allison Gregory and Steven Dietz