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Audition Dates:
Wednesday Sept. 1st, 7:30pm
Wednesday Sept. 8th, 7:30pm
Show dates: Nov. 12th - Nov. 28th
The play begins with the nagging sound of a cellphone heard from across a rather empty café at a
businessman's table. Jean, slurping the last bit of her soup, asks politely "are you going to get that?" It continues to ring, annoyingly unanswered. Finally, she marches over and answers it for him. And, like Alice with her first bite of the cookie, a flip of a phone launches Jean into the world of the dear departed Gordon Gottlieb complete with a collection of bizarre characters.
According to New York Times critic, Charles Isherwood, DEAD MAN'S CELLPHONE is "a beguiling
comedy….a hallucinatory poetic fantasy that blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving."
Auditions will consist of readings from the script.
Character breakdown is as follows (age ranges are approximate):
JEAN: 35 to 45, the central character, a mousy woman who seems as if she doesn't
want to take up space.
GORDON: 35 to 50, a dead man, a businessman who is appropriately quiet in the first
act, but speaks volumes (5 page monologue) from the afterlife in the second
act.
HERMIA: 35 to 50, Gordon's wife, knows that Gordon has affairs and, of course, drinks
a bit.
MRS. GOTTLIEB: 60 to 80, Gordon's mother, her house smells of dry cracked curtains that
were once velvet. She wears fur, indoors. You know the type.
DWIGHT: 35 to 45, Gordon's brother, who was always overshadowed by his big (dead)
brother. A stationery salesman who falls head over heels for Jean.
THE OTHER WOMAN: 25 to 35, two characters played by the same actress, Gordon's mistress, and a
/ THE STRANGER, shadowy stranger who attempts to kill Jean.
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