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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 2m
Sarah Ruhl
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl.
Winner! 2003 recipient of the Whiting Award for Drama (Sarah Ruhl)
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone was first presented at Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. in 2007. It was directed by Rebecca Taichman.
JEAN – A womanGORDON – A dead manMRS. GOTTLIEB – Gordon’s motherHERMIA – Gordon’s WidowDWIGHT – Gordon’s brotherTHE OTHER WOMAN/THE STRANGER – Has an accent
Various locations. The present.
“Blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving.” – The New York Times
“Satire is her oxygen... In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.” – The Washington Post
“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.” – Variety
“[Ruhl] tackles big ideas with a voice that entertains.” – NPR
“The beguiling new comedy... blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving... [Ruhl] writes surrealist fantasies that happen to be populated by eccentrically real people, comedies in which the surface illogic of dreams is made meaningful – made truthful – by the deeper logic of human feeling.” – The New York Times
Dead Man’s Cell Phone – About the Show with Alley Theatre
Dead Man’s Cell Phone – College Preview iwith University of Texas at Austin
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late ...
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