Dead Man s Cell Phone, by Sara Ruhl, opens today and runs through April 28 at the Black Box Theatre. Rehearsing scenes are, from left, Eric Brekke, Nora Brown, Jamie Bronstein and Karren Caroe.
LAS CRUCES ? No Strings Theatre Company's production of "Dead Man's Cell Phone," by Sara Ruhl, opens today and runs through April 28 at the Black Box Theatre. Cake and champagne will be served after tonight's performance.No String's artistic director Ceil Herman, who is directing the play, calls it "an unusual and charming love story which deftly combines fantasy and realism. Communication, misinformation, grief, confabulations and a need for human interaction are all explored in this wonderfully poetic and fantastical world that Ruhl has constructed. It is a masterful work about how these devices of communication seem to isolate rather than connect. They, despite being so inconceivably linked to our lives, provide a partial if not entirely false reflection of our real lives and keep us from ever truly connecting."
According to a synopsis furnished by No Strings Theatre Company, the drama begins "At a nondescript cafe, where an extremely unremarkable woman named Jean, played by Nora Brown, has taken possession of a cell phone belonging to Gordon (Eric Brekke), a dead man at the table next to her. Though she never met the man, she seems compelled to answer his calls. In the process, she meets Mrs. Gottlieb (Karen Caroe), Gordon's eccentric mother; Hermia (Jamie Bronstein), Gordon's awkward widow; and Dwight, Gordon's lonesome brother who, in spite of looking an awful lot like Gordon, bears no resemblance to the mysterious dead man.
"Despite the very real, very
alive connections that Jean begins to make with Gordon's family, and the information they reveal about Gordon, she still clings stubbornly to what has become a symbol of the man she wished Gordon to have been."New York Times critic Charles Isherwood lauded "Ruhl's work that blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving."
The play was first performed in June, 2007 and in March 2008 premiered in both New York and Chicago.
In conjunction with the show, artwork by Margaret Bernstein inspired by "Dead Man's Cell Phone" will be on display thetheatregallery in the Black Box lobby.
Performances will be at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $10 and $9 for students and seniors over 65. For information and reservations call 575- 523-1223, or visit no-strings.org
S. Derrickson Moore may be reached at 575-541-5450. Follow her on Twitter @DerricksonMoore
If you go
What: "Dead Man's Cell Phone," by Sara Ruhl
Where: Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Downtown Mall
When: Today through April 28. Performances 8 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays
How much: $10 regular and $9 students and seniors over 65
Info and reservations: 575-523-1223, no-strings.org
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