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Dead Man's Cell Phone at Parker Players Theater Company

Dates: 10/17/2025 - 11/9/2025

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Parker Players Theater Company


540 W Northwest Highway Barrington, IL 60010
Barrington,IL

Phone: 877 6727537


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Jean isn’t a nerd, and she’s no dud—she’s simply… there. Until she answers a dead man’s ringing cell phone. That single act hurls her into a whirlwind of eccentric relatives, a drunken widow, a black-market underworld, a Johannesburg airport brawl, a laundromat in the afterlife, and maybe—just maybe—into the arms of the dead man’s brother… or the dead man himself.

Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone isn’t just a surreal comedy about life, love, and death—it’s a sharp commentary on how technology drives and distorts us. Time bends, realities blur, and we’re swept through parallel worlds, peril, and peculiar romance—all by way of one very insistent ringtone.



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Parker Players Theater Company is at 540 W Northwest Highway Barrington, IL 60010, Barrington, IL.

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