Photo Flash: DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE Hits ArtsWest 9/9 ?10/3

ArtsWest starts the 2009-10 season with Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new work from Sarah Ruhl, the playwright behind The Clean House and Eurydice. When Jean answers the cell phone of the corpse at the next table, she unwittingly embarks on a quirky odyssey that takes her from grief to the black market to the afterlife. With unfailing empathy, she sets the dead man's bizarre life to rights and on the way resurrects her own. ArtsWest favorite Carol Roscoe returns to direct this Seattle premiere.

Dead Man's Cell Phone (Seattle Premiere)
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Carol Roscoe (The Vertical Hour, The Retreat from Moscow)
September 9 - October 3, 2009

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Photos by www.mattdurhamphotography.com.

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