Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
Rights: Concord Theatricals
Cast Size: 2m, 4w
Synopsis: 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.
Language: 16+
Adult Content: 13+
Violence: 13+
Pay attention to: Adult language is infrequent. Adult content is mild.
Flexibility: All changes must be approved in advance.
Production notes: Multiple locations. Options for double casting. Violence is a staged fight between two female characters. A gun is involved.