DMCP photos

As mentioned earlier, here are some photos from the production of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, which ran from May 6 - 22. The production featured Jenny Strassburg as Jean, Alex Dittmer as Dwight and Gordon, Jeannie Hines as Hermia, Caitlin Glasgo as Carlotta and Robin Ng as Harriet.

empty set with hand-painted cell phone snippets floating like clouds

Jean in the cafe

Hermia's drunken confession

Carlotta's prompting to be beautiful

commiserating with Gordon's mother

Jean liked him better when he was dead

cell phone ballet

Dwight saves Jean

falling in love in the stationery store

 So that's it for season four. I realized toward the end of the season that 4 of the 5 productions were written by women. Certainly wasn't by design, but rather it reflects the current state of theatre in this country. I picked five scripts that I loved and four of them were written by women. It's about damned time that the theatre world caught up.

That being said, I have no idea what shows will comprise the fifth season - I'm not even sure there will be a fifth season. Like most small non-profit theatres, it remains a continual struggle to find the funds to remain open and active. I hope we'll be back.

- Bill