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Immediate Theatre Project and North Carolina Stage Company mark their second collaboration of the 2009-2010 Season with "Dead Man’s Cell Phone", the acclaimed comedy by Sarah Ruhl. "Dead Man’s Cell Phone" runs for two weeks through April 18, 2010 at North Carolina Stage Company’s theatre in the heart of downtown Asheville. This new play by Sarah Ruhl was called “a beguiling comedy…a hallucinatory poetic fantasy…” by The New York Times and “an oddball comedy” by the Washington Post. It follows the incredible journey of one lonely woman who reluctantly answers a stranger’s incessantly ringing phone without realizing that the phone’s owner is dead. Despite this disadvantage, she forms a strange relationship with the man by continuing to answer his phone, eventually meeting his family and become involved with his sinister line of work. Immediate Theatre Project producing director Willie Repoley describes the play as “challenging, refreshing, and very exciting,” and says that Dead Man’s Cell Phone is a great fit for ITP, NC Stage, and Asheville. “It has so much going for it, so many things that excited us. This will be the first time we have produced a female playwright, and it is the newest play we have ever produced. And I think that really shows, in how fresh and delightful the show is. Jean, the main character, is just this very vivid and very unusual woman. Her connection to the world is utterly strange and unique, and yet her feelings are very real and very ordinary, and very moving. She becomes a whole person by risking everything on what seems like a stupid idea, which takes her on a surreal, and dangerous, and wonderful journey.” Immediate Theatre Project was founded in 2004 and has been the Partner Company in Residence at NC Stage since 2008. The two professional theatre companies have co-produced a very successful stage version of It’s a Wonderful Life since 2006, and have expanded to include a national tour of the production, which toured from Chicago to Palm Beach in December 2009. For tickets or more information, please visit www.ncstage.org. (Image provided by The North Carolina Stage Company.)
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