It begins after lunch on Michael's phone. Someone he doesn’t know is texting him looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—awkward romance, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter.

COVID-19 PROCEDURE:

To patrons attending our production: Benedictine Drama Club will be following The Ohio Department of Health's Sector 48 Performing Arts Responsible Restart Guidelines. This limits our in person attendance to 45 patrons. Tickets will be on a first come first served basis, online purchase only. (See attached for questions). Seating will be arranged in pods of two and 4, physically distanced six (6) feet apart. Masks must be worn the entire time.

All cast and crew members will have their temperatures taken before entering rehearsals and performances, as athletes must. The actors will be socially distanced on the stage (each in his own square from which he will not move). Actors will wear microphones, so they do not have to project their voices. The cast will maintain social distancing in the backstage areas, taking turns in the Green Room dressing area so no more than 4 cast members are in the space. Only two lighting and one sound crew member will be in the booth, moving the Stage Manager to the house floor. Since we’ll have no set changes, we’ll have no running crew, and only a limited house crew will be needed.

Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. His scripts published by Dramatic Publishing include The Giver, Gathering Blue, Ghosts in the Machine, Swagger, Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars, Cinderella Confidential, Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede, Vote?, Myth Adventures, The Emperor's New Clothes and Virtual Devotion. Coble's plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, in all 50 states of the U.S., in Disney theme parks, and on several continents, including productions at MCC Theater, The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arena Stage, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, South Coast Repertory, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Coterie Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center and the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Awards include the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, an Emmy nomination, the Chorpenning Playwriting Award for Body of Work, the AT&T: OnStage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, and the Cleveland Arts Prize.

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY , INC., of Woodstock, Illinois 

Originally commissioned and produced by First Stage (Milwaukee, Wisc.) under the title TXT U L8R.