LINCROFT: PLAY WRINGS HUMOR FROM PHONE
It begins with that bane of live theater companies everywhere: the persistently ringing phone.
But in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, at Brookdale Community College, the unwelcome noise is not only part of the show: it’s the catalyst that sets off a bizarre chain of connections involving Jean (the woman at the next café table, who answers the call when it becomes evident that the phone’s owner is very much dead) and various family members or acquaintances of the dead guy, Gordon.