Red Dragon Players

The Austin High School Theatre Department

Bringing up the curtain
on 114 years of Theatre!

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Fall 2023

Dead Man's Cell Phone

DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE

by Sarah Ruhl

 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, 2007


An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough of it. And a dead man-with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone.Dead Man's Cellphone is a work about how we remember the dead – and how that memorialization changes us. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her presumptions about morality, redemption, and isolation in a technologically obsessed society.


Dead Man's Cellphone premiered in 2007 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. in Washington, D.C., directed by Rebecca Taichman. It premiered off-Broadway in 2008 at Playwright's Horizons, directed by Anne Bogart and starring Mary Louise Parker.




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