Anne Bogart, Dead Man's Cell Phone
Podcast
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Mainstage Theater
Written by
Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Anne Bogart
Gordon is dead, but his cell phone lives on. When Jean, an empathetic museum worker, answers his ringing phone beside her in a café, she is soon playing unwitting comforter and confessor to the man’s grieving friends and family. Before she knows it, Jean’s ensnarled in the underbelly of the dead man’s bizarre life. A wildly imaginative new comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically-obsessed world.
Featuring
Creative Team
G. W. Mercier
Scenic Designer & Costume Designer
Brian H Scott
Lighting Designer
Darron L West
Sound Designer
Elizabeth Moreau
Production Stage Manager
Photo of Kathleen Chalfant by Joan Marcus.
“A beguiling new comedy. Sarah Ruhl blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving. Her surrealist fantasies are made meaningful – made truthful – by the deeper logic of human feeling.”
— Charles Isherwood, The New York Times | Read Full Article“What a pleasure to have Mary-Louise Parker, one of our most extraordinary actresses, back on the New York stage after a too-long absence.”
— John Simon, Bloomberg
“A rockstar ensemble in Anne Bogart’s visually impressive production.”
— David Cote, Time Out New York