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Dead Man's Cell Phone
by Sarah Ruhle September 28 - October 1, 2023 Fishback Studio Theatre Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center While at a café, a man dies. But his cell phone will not stop ringing. The woman at the next table, Jean, picks up the cell phone and ends up stuck in the middle of all his troubles, meeting his widow Hermia, his mother Mrs. Gottlieb, and his mistress. In the course of meeting all these people, she ends up falling in love with the dead man’s brother, Dwight. The dead man himself, Gordon Gottlieb, eventually tells his last moments himself. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Gordon.............. Stuart Melby Dwight.............. Jacob Womack Jean.................. Halie WIlson Hermia.............. Taylor Lauters Mrs. Gottlieb..... Ellie Koerner Other Woman.... Esther Klingbile Stranger............. Keith King Mike Thompson..... Director Amanda Jensen..... Stage Manager |
Production Poster for Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhle
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