AUDITIONS: CP2 – Dead Man’s Cellphone

A comedy about how we remember the dead – and how that memorialization changes us. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her presumptions about isolation in a technological society. Everything we thought we knew, everything we thought was dead, can be uncovered, re-discovered, and brought to life again.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals, on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com

 

AUDITION INFORMATION

Dead Man’s Cellphone Audition Form

Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, 2007

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough of it. And a dead man-with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell
Phone. This is a work about how we remember the dead – and how that memorialization changes us. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her presumptions about morality, redemption, and isolation in a technologically obsessed society.

Characters (in order of appearance):

(Ages not set in stone, will depend on actors available)

• Gordon, a dead man (40s-50s)
• Jean, a woman (30s-40s)
• The Other Woman/The Stranger (30s-40s)
• Hermia, Gordon’s widow (40s-50s)
• Mrs. Gottlieb, Gordon’s mother (60s)
• Dwight, Gordon’s brother (40s-50s)

There will be a narrator.