Don't Hang Up

With its moribund direction and histrionic performances, DON'T HANG UP is an endurance test even for bad-movie buffs, an over extended one-act play that aspires to be a A BRIEF ENCOUNTER for invalids.

Pudgy British playwright Joe Green (David Suchet) feeds his face instead of his talent as he hides inside his flat and nurses agoraphobia and writer's block. Green moans transatlantically to Sarah Wise (Rosanna Arquette), an American actress with an unpronounceable medical disorder. Although wheelchair-bound (she can occasionally manage a few steps on crutches), Sarah begs the minor playwright to sanction an off-Broadway production of one of his plays as a showca...