*** Try to imagine this scene. You’re in a small cafe, seated alone at a table enjoying a bowl of soup as you catch up on your office work. At the next table, another person appears to be doing the same. There is no one else in view, when the cell phone at the nest table rings. No one answers, so you get up to make sure the person has heard the phone. You find that the man has not answered his phone because he is dead! Yes, that’s right- he is DEAD!.
This is the premise of Sarah Ruhl’s “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” now on stage at The Skokie Theatre in Skokie. In the past, I have seen versions of this play where they do it in one act with no intermission, but under Wayne Mell’s direction ( and knowing they have an older audience) they are doing it with one intermission making the run time with intermission, just short of two hours. The woman who finds herself taking over the cell phone is Jean ( Heidi Hansfield) and the dead man aka Gordon is played by Peter Goldsmith. Be aware,…..