Dead Man's Cell Phone

Synopsis

Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 4f / Unit SetAn 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, author of The Clean House and Eurydice.

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 ass