“Does knowing someone help to love them best or does it all happen in one millisecond?”
Network Theatre, London’s secret community theatre, presents its intimate production of Sarah Ruhle’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone this October.
Network Theatre’s production revisits Sarah Ruhle’s acclaimed play about the role that technology plays in facilitating, or preventing, human connection in our lives, which increasingly depend on the use of technological devices.
Funny and tender, Dead Man’s Cell Phone forces us to confront our presumptions about relationships, morality and redemption in a society that is both technologically-obsessed and enabled.
Directed by Amalia Kontesi, and produced and assistant-directed by Jennie Rich, the play features a cast of seasoned and new Network Theatre members, including Hannah Dormor, Alain English, Elizabeth Gartside, Bianca Monteiro, Daniel Carter and Naomi Bowman, alongside vocalist Gaja Gasiorek.
“We are thrilled to be bringing Dead Man’s Cell Phone back to London and exploring its take on love and loss in the context of the tremendous technological evolution that has taken place in the nearly fifteen years since it was written, which has forever changed the way in which we connect with each other,” said director Amalia Kontesi.
Set designers are Paul Lunnon and Vasiliki Verousi, costumes and projections are by Vasiliki Verousi, lighting design is by Paul Evans, sound design is by Thomas Cheeseman and fight choreographer is Alex Farrell. The play will feature music by Allen’s Hand and Stathis Stathopoulos.
Tickets are now on sale via the Network Theatre website.
12 – 15 October, 7.30 pm
Network Theatre, 246A Lower Road, Waterloo, London, SE1 8SJ
Directions to our venue can be found here.
For over 80 years, Network Theatre has operated as a community theatre space in the underground railway arches of London Waterloo station.
Run by the volunteers of the resident Network Theatre Company, it produces its own productions of contemporary and classical theatre and provides a unique location for visiting theatre companies and events.
