Telephone

Ariana Reines’ masterful play explores the limits and limitlessness of communication: between ourselves, between each other, between rooms, between continents and even into the afterlife. Drawing on Avital Ronell’s The Telephone Book, the life of Alexander Graham Bell, and the writings of Carl Jung, the piece asks us to grapple with the way technology seeks to answer a pre-existing desire in all of us to be closer to each other.