Kip Knott is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent being Afraid of Heaven. His first one-act play, The Irish-Hunky Shuffle, was produced in 2005 by the Irish Theatre Project in Columbus, Ohio.
Cast
Wife - Christy Donahue
Husband 1 - Frank J. Schiavone
Husband 2 - Robert Rhodes

ABOUT RINGTONES:

Ringtones was inspired by a conversation with my son, who was trying to brainstorm ideas for a one-act play to be performed at his high school. My son had the nugget of an idea for a play about a man who loses his wedding ring at a bar while celebrating his anniversary with his wife, but he couldn’t think where to take the idea from there. Consequently, my son left that idea behind and went on to write a different play about a husband and wife who meet in Purgatory. The idea about the ring, however, stayed with me. I couldn’t stop thinking about the symbolic power that we ascribe to a wedding ring, and so I decided to push the idea of that power to an absurd level by making the power real rather than merely symbolic. As I began to draft what eventually became Ringtones, I wrote from the husband’s perspective, which just didn’t feel right. It was only when I turned the situation around and wrote from the wife’s perspective that everything began to click. As a result, the wife’s final gesture at the end of the play came very naturally. In the end, I feel that the play was something that I needed to write in order to express my frustration with the current social climate in America.