Press - Dead Man's Cell Phone

DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE
by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Bart DeLorenzo
September 21 - October 12, 2008
Julianne Argyros Stage

Led by Variety (“wonderously mad and moving”) and The New York Times (“beguiling”), the critics—and the entire theater world—have gone wild over Sarah Ruhl’s writing.  She returns to SCR following the world premiere of A Clean House, seen first by SCR audiences before it wowed New York and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist.  Her latest comedy is another runaway hit that proves she is, in the words of her MacArthur Fellowship, “a playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works.”  In this imaginative new comedy, Gordan is dead, but his cell phone keeps ringing. And ringing.  Would you answer?  Jean does, and soon she’s telling the callers what she thinks they need to hear, even though it takes her to hell (yes, that’s where Gordon ends up) and back, as she draws them into the surprises and mysteries of their lives—and her own.

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Shannon Holt and Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.		(l. to r.) Shannon Holt, Andrew Borba, Margaret Welsh and Christina Pickles in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.

Margaret Welsh and Lenny Von Dohlen in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.		(l. to r.) Lenny Von Dohlen, Andrew Borba and Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.

Lenny Von Dohlen and Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.		Andrew Borba and Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.

Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.		Lenny Von Dohlen and Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.		Andrew Borba and Margaret Welsh in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12. Photo by Ed Krieger/SCR.

(l. to r.)  Nike Doukas, Christina Pickles, Andrew Borba, Margaret Welsh, Lenny Von Dohlen and Shannon Holt make up the cast of Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down, at South Coast Repertory Sept. 21 – October 12.

Playwright Sarah Ruhl.		Director Bart DeLorenzo.