Mark your calendars!

Dead Man's Cell Phone

opens Friday, May 3rd, and runs on Thursday - Sunday thru May 19th 2013

A darkly romantic comedy by award winning playwright Sarah Ruhl
and directed by Bill Barksdale.

This play begins in a restaurant when a woman picks up a dead man’s ringing cell phone and answers it. So begins the woman’s journey into the man’s bizarre world. She keeps the phone, fields his calls, and becomes his social secretary, inadvertently involved in redirecting and rewriting his life. As she tries her loopy best to bring joy to his survivors, she delivers made-up messages from him and makes of him the man he never was.

Why? Because, as she says to his survivors, “When Gordon’s phone rang and rang after he died, I thought his phone was beautiful, like it was the only thing keeping him alive, like as long as people called him he would be alive.”

All of us know with our fixation for anything wireless, phones connect and phones separate. In this play the ringing phone becomes a powerful totem, showing us the irony of how we live and how we love in this digital age.

Tickets are $15 Fri and Sat and $10 Thur and Sun, and are available at Goods’ Stamp Shoppe, 56 South Main Street, Willits, or reservations can be made with a credit card by calling the theatre at 459-0895.

A special benefit performance supporting Soroptomists will be held Thurs, May 9th, including hors d’ oeuvres and beverage for $15.

Contact Marilyn at 459-5649 for tickets to this event.