Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Title: Dead Man's Cell Phone
Author: Ruhl, Sarah
Price: $19.95

Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy

2m, 4f


An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet caf. 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 assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

\"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

\"...beguiling new comedy...Ms. Ruhl's work blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving.\" - New York Time

DEAD MAN'S CELLPHONE was first presented at Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. in 2007. It was directed by Rebecca Taichman.


CASTING: 2m, 4f
CASTING ATTRIBUTES: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

CHARACTERS:
A WOMAN, JEAN
A DEAD MAN, GORDON
GORDON's MOTHER, MRS. GOTTLIEB
GORDON'S WIDOW, HERMIA
GORDON'S BROTHER, DWIGHT
THE OTHER WOMAN/THE STRANGER - has an accent



Full Length Play
Dramatic Comedy
Romantic Comedy
Time Period - Contemporary
Settings Of Play - Various locations. The present.
FEATURES / CONTAINS: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
CAUTIONS: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes
THEMES: Business, Death, Illness/Health, Love, Marriage, Parenting/Family
PERFORMANCE GROUP: College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
RECOGNITION / AWARDS: From Off-Broadway

Publisher: Samuel French Inc (NY US)
Publication date: 01/01/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780573663925
Publishing status: OS Archived