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Communicating Doors

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573626845

"An inventive diversion."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
This intricate time travelling comic thriller by the British master of farcical comedy delighted London and New York audiences.

A London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, travelling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. 

The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. 

Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine.
REVIEWS:

"A real knockout... A vastly entertaining blend of the West End drawing room thriller with one of Priestly's old time plays, where characters go whirling throughout time. Of course, Ayckbourn has added innumerable piquant and bizarre details of his own... This is a show to see."

The New York Post

"An inventive diversion."

The New York Times

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

  • REECE - A businessman, aged 30 and 70.
    JESSICA - His first wife, aged 25 and 45.
    RUELLA - His second wife, aged 45.
    JULIAN - His business associate, aged 45 and 65.
    PHOEBE (POOPAY) - A prostitute, aged 33.
    HAROLD - A house detective, aged 35 and 55.

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    This intricate time travelling comic thriller by the British master of farcical comedy delighted London and New York audiences.

    A London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, travelling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. 

    The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. 

    Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine.

    "A real knockout... A vastly entertaining blend of the West End drawing room thriller with on of Priestley's old time plays, where characters go whirling throughout time. Of course, Ayckbourn has added innumerable piquant and bizarre details of his own... This is a show to see" - The New York Post

    "An inventive diversion." - The New York Times

    		$24.95

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