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Article: Hu-llo? Even Mary-Louise Parker Can't Rescue Ruhl Cell Phone.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2008
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In Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, there's a wonderfully ghoulish true story about a cell phone that started ringing inside a coffin.
It happened in Belgium some five years ago: The grieving family of the deceased had gathered at the funeral parlor to say a private, loving farewell around the sealed coffin when they suddenly heard a cell phone ringing inside. (What makes it worse--or funnier--is that the badly shaken family subsequently sued the undertakers for negligence).
Ms. Ruhl's latest drama--a comic fable about love and cell phones (and too much else beside)--begins very promisingly, in the bizarre vein of the Belgium story, when a man dies sitting ...
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