Twin Masks Performing Arts Center
Audition Announcement
Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
Auditions will be held at the theatre on Sunday August 3 beginning at 6:30, and Monday August 4 beginning at 7:30. The production will run Friday and Saturday evenings October 31 to November 15.
TMPAC is located at 9067 Church Street, Suites 2 & 3, Twinsburg, Ohio 44087.
TMPAC is a registered 501c3 non profit organization and all actors and production staff members are volunteers (non-paid).
Director Marc C. Howard asks that auditioners follow this link to sign up for an audition slot and to get more details regarding this production.
This play explores the theme of how cell phones both connect and isolate us, as well as the balance between going through the motions and really living. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it’s the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Reviews:
“Satire is her oxygen […] In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave” ~ The Washington Post
“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.” ~ Variety
“[Ruhl] tackles big ideas with a voice that entertains.” ~ NPR
“The beguiling new comedy […] blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving […] [Ruhl] writes surrealist fantasies that happen to be populated by eccentrically real people, comedies in which the surface illogic of dreams is made meaningful – made truthful – by the deeper logic of human feeling.” ~ The New York Times
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