Dead Man's Cell Phone (TCG Edition) - Softcover

Ruhl, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559363258 ISBN 13: 9781559363259

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 2008

Synopsis

“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

“Sarah Ruhl is deliriously imaginative and fearless in her choice of subject matter. She is an original.”—Molly Smith, artistic director, Arena Stage

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 playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. 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.

Sarah Ruhl’s plays have been produced at theaters around the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others, and internationally. She is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The Clean House, 2004), the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers’ Award. The Clean House was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists.

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Synopsis

'This is a wildly imaginative new play from New York by a playwright 'with a unique comic voice" - ("Variety").It premiered in New York, then staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago. The British premiere of Sarah Ruhl's earlier play, "The Clean House", starred Patricia Hodge. Ruhl is being hailed as one of the brightest new female playwrights in America.An unexceptional woman in a quiet cafe, exasperated by the incessant ringing of an abandoned cell phone, confiscates it and thereby inherits the life of its owner, who happens to be dead. So begins "Dead Man's Cell Phone", a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play "The Clean House".Premiered in New York in March 2008, and starring Mary-Louise Parker (from "West Wing"), "Dead Man's Cell Phone" is 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.

About the Author

Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play "The Clean House," which has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Her play Eurydice has been produced at Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1559363258
• ISBN 13: 9781559363259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96