DOGS

by Hanna Kime

It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out to conquer nature, destroy their own limits, and shatter our perception of what the human body is or isn’t capable of. DOGS is a dizzying, anti-plot, high-intensity exploration of capitalism, competition, and consumption...

It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out to conquer nature, destroy their own limits, and shatter our perception of what the human body is or isn’t capable of. DOGS is a dizzying, anti-plot, high-intensity exploration of capitalism, competition, and consumption that begs the question: how long can we keep all this up?

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  • Nathan Short: DOGS by Hanna Kime
    “

    Very sad I missed the production at Red Theatre. This script is described as a "comma, not a period." and if that ain't the troot?
    Kime tackles this script with so much humor and it is a beautiful piece for a femme ensemble.

    Very sad I missed the production at Red Theatre. This script is described as a "comma, not a period." and if that ain't the troot?
    Kime tackles this script with so much humor and it is a beautiful piece for a femme ensemble.

    ”
  • Zach Barr: DOGS by Hanna Kime
    “

    A play about consumption and being consumed and what happens when you get spit back out. Kime finds so many thematic angles in the nature of hot dogs that it's genuinely unexpected how the play manages to tie them all together by the end. But it does, and it's a humorous, terrifying, unabashedly loud ride. Enormous theatricality, and well served by a strong world premiere at Red Theater.

    A play about consumption and being consumed and what happens when you get spit back out. Kime finds so many thematic angles in the nature of hot dogs that it's genuinely unexpected how the play manages to tie them all together by the end. But it does, and it's a humorous, terrifying, unabashedly loud ride. Enormous theatricality, and well served by a strong world premiere at Red Theater.

    ”
  • Dave Osmundsen: DOGS by Hanna Kime
    “

    What a tense, rapid-fire, unhinged, darkly brilliant, and stunningly theatrical play! Behind the absurd and high-stakes scenario is a lacerating satire about what women put their bodies through in order to win. By the end, the audience is indicted as voyeurs of watching each finely-etched character put her health and well-being on the line for our entertainment. I cannot wait to see this play staged soon!

    What a tense, rapid-fire, unhinged, darkly brilliant, and stunningly theatrical play! Behind the absurd and high-stakes scenario is a lacerating satire about what women put their bodies through in order to win. By the end, the audience is indicted as voyeurs of watching each finely-etched character put her health and well-being on the line for our entertainment. I cannot wait to see this play staged soon!

    ”
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Development History

  • Reading, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, 2023
  • Residency, Berkeley Rep, 2022
  • Commission, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, 2022

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