Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s fall theater season opened in a flurry of activity in recent days. Before I talk you through what I think you should see, let me start by saying this has been a golden fall for canine performances in Chicago — so much so that we’re thinking of doing a Hot New Faces feature for dogs.
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I personally always felt bad for child actors on broadway, let alone dogs. For some reason, I feel as though making dogs be actors or making them compete in pageants is torture to them. Although, yes, we cannot read the mind of a dog, I don’t think that they’d choose being on stage over being a normal dog. On top of this, I know that no one is torturing the dogs that are on stage and that these specific dogs are trained to do this kind of work, I still feel bad for them. I particularly feel bad when I think about how confused they must be. And with this confusion comes months of repetition when rehearsing for a show, which results into ultimate constant confusion. However, I understand that sometimes you have to do what you have to do in order to make a story feel as real as possible, which in this case implies hiring a dog. I’m not sure how else one could mimic a dog or pet else on stage, and I understand that dog actors have been around for a while. I just hope that the people in charge of the dog actors are taking care of them and not retreating them any less than they would a human actor.
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