Auditions are now open for our August production of Dead Man's Cell Phone directed by Benj Beatty. Performances will run from October 23rd until November 1st.
Audition date: Saturday, July 4th from 10:00am
Location: Barkly Square
Audition information pack.
We are looking for actors to bring to life the following characters:
JEAN – late 20s to early 30s – female presenting
GORDON – late 30s to early 50s – male presenting
MRS GOTTLIEB – late 50s to early 70s – female presenting
HERMIA – late 30s to early 50s – female presenting
DWIGHT – late 30s to late 40s – male presenting
THE OTHER WOMAN / THE STRANGER – late 20s to early 30s – female presenting
Dead Man's Cell Phone is a surrealist play about a woman named Jean who answers the ringing mobile phone of a man who has just died at a cafe. She becomes entangled in his life, meeting his family and mistress, and in the process begins to live her own life more fully.
The play explores themes of life, death, connection, and the afterlife in a quirky and often fantastical way. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her presumptions about morality, redemption, and isolation in a technology-obsessed society.
Dead Man's Cell Phone won the Helen Hayes Award in 2008 for Outstanding New Play. Sarah Ruhl is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author; in 2016, she received the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
