by Sarah Ruhl An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet caf. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Mans 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. This amateur production of Dead Man's Cell Phone is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk [//www.concordtheatricals.co.uk] Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the New York Premiere of DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE Off-Broadway in 2008. Originally produced June 2006 by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director; Kevin Moore, Managing Director. DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commissioning Program. Every member of the audience, regardless of age, must be in possession of a valid ticket to gain entry to the theatre. Ticketspurchased are not exchangeable or refundable unless the performance is cancelled.