JULY SMA PLAYREADERS PRESENTS:
July 24 and 25 at the Santa Ana Theater

Dead Man’s Cellphone by Sarah Ruhl

A cellphone rings incessantly in a quiet café. A woman at the next table has had enough of it. Why doesn’t the guy answer it? She answers it for him and immediately things grow weirder and weirder. Curiouser and curiouser. And darker and darker. Can she find her way through it all? So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, SMA Playreader’s choice for its July production.

Dead Man’s Cellphone is about how we remember the dead – and how that memory changes us. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her own morals in a boundary-less, tech-obsessed world, rapidly challenging all we hold near and dear.

At heart, Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cellphone is a laugh out loud romantic comedy mixed with noir suspense.

Take the call. Enjoy the ride!

About the Playwright:
Sarah Rule’s Dead Man’s Cellphone premiered at New York’s Playwright’s Horizons in 2008 starring Mary-Louise Parker. She won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play.

Rule has enjoyed success on Broadway with her plays Eurydice, The Clean House and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play). She adapted her play Eurydice into a libretto for Matthew Aucoin’s opera of the same name performed at the Metropolitan Opera winning Best Opera Recording at the 2003 Grammy Awards. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and PEN/Laura Pell International Foundation for Theater award.

About Dead Man’s Cellphone SMA Playreaders’ Production:
Directed by: Anne Campbell

With a Stellar Cast (in order of Appearance):
Gina Giampaoli
Gene Harvey
Gerri Baruch
Clara Dunham
Marjorie Burren
Rick Franz

And a Creative Team:
Teleprompter: Roger Johns
Composer/Music Supervisor: Alan Campbell
Lighting/Sound: Miguel Torres

Wednesday, July 24 & Thursday, July 25, 2024
$100 pesos
Tickets sold only at the door, first come first serve
House opens at 5:30 pm, show time: 6 pm
Teatro Santa Ana, Relox #50A, Centro