Telephone
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 6, 2009
Closed Feb 28, 2009
Opened Feb 6, 2009
Closed Feb 28, 2009
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Running Time:
1hr. 20min.
1hr. 20min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A biography of the phone and a haunting meditation on the nature of the disembodied voice, Telephone operates like a switchboard connecting places and people across time and space. Watson and Bell, Miss St. (Jung's notorious schizophrenic who thought she had a telephone inside her), and an assortment of 21st lovers on cell phones form a delicate and ferociously poetic work that asks what it means to "take the call" not knowing what or who will be on the other end.
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Ariana Reines' tripartite play Telephone -- inspired by Avital Ronell's 1991 study The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech -- perfectly fulfills the Foundry Theatre's mandate to create "works that merge the exploration of social and political questions with unusual theatrical forms." Such a grandiose goal might sound like an invitation to over-intellectualized bloviation, but in the hands of this gifted playwright, a fleet director such as Ken Rus Schmoll, and a superlative cast, Telephone comes through clearly as a quirky dramatic delight.
The production opens with an abandoned stage (a table, two chairs, a wall with door) and a long symphony of near-silence, augurin[...]