SCHS Theatre Presents Winter Play, Dead Man's Cell Phone

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with theatre! Join South
County High School senior thespians February 14 and 15 as they present Dead Man’s Cell Phone, an imaginative
new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Sarah Ruhl.



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. Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice,
creates a work about how we memorialize the dead – and how remembering changes
us. The play 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.

Directed by SCHS English teacher Dan Deiter, the play features an

all-senior thespian cast: Emmy Brien as Jean, Jeremy Thomas as Gordon (the dead
man), Kelsey Davis as Gordon’s mother, Kathy Oh as Gordon’s widow, Sam Weggeman
as Gordon’s brother, and Jackie Parman as the stranger.