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AUDITIONS! June 22, 23 (Callbacks June 24) 2015 WICA Season Opener: Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl Directed by Phil Jordan


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Dead Man’s Cell Phone – Theatre Series
…a wildly imaginative new comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Phil Jordan

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café... A stranger at the next table who has had enough... And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House, Eurydice, and In the Next Room. 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.

General Auditions will be held Monday, June 22 and Tuesday, June 23, beginning at 6:00 pm each evening.  Call Deana Duncan at 221-8276 to schedule a five-minute audition slot.  Prepare a short monologue (less than 4 minutes).  In addition to your monologue, you may (if you wish) sing up to 16 bars from a song of your choice.  There will be no accompaniment, songs must be performed a capella.  Callbacks will take place Wednesday, June 24 at 7:00 pm

Dead Man’s Cell Phone will have a cast of 10 actors, at least 4 women and at least 2 men.  The play won the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play in 2008. 

Dead Man’s Cell Phone . . .

·         . . . is a modern psychological thriller,

·         . . . is a screwball romantic comedy,

·         . . . is an inspiring tale of love and redemption,

·         . . . is all of the above.  And none of the above.

Be a part of Whidbey Island Center for the Arts' Theatre Series season opener, featuring one of America’s great young female playwrights.  Everyone is encouraged to audition.  

 

Earlier Event: June 17
"Brims - The Sequel" Play Café - Play Read/Scene Study
Later Event: June 29
WICA Conservatory Summer Camps

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.