Communicating Doors
by
Alan Ayckbourn
SYNOPSIS
"Communicating Doors" is an ingenious comedy thriller that spans three time zones, each twenty years apart and linked by communicating doors. The play opens in a London Hotel room in the year 2014.
Poopay, a self-styled "sex therapist" has been summoned, not as she thinks, for her regular services, but instead to witness a document giving details of the murder of her client's two wives by his business associate. In attempting to escape, Poopay goes through the "communicating door" and finds herself back in 1994, face to face with Ruella, the second wife. Ruella is naturally sceptical about Poopay’s tale until she herself goes through the same door - and back in time - and meets Jessica, the first wife, whereupon she decides to seize the opportunity to rewrite the future.
"Communicating Doors" was a huge hit in the West End and on Broadway. It won the UK Writers' Guild Award for Best West End Play in 1996 and the Molière Award for Best Comedy in France in 1997.
DIRECTOR
Valery Niggli
CAST
Harold
Tood Piotrowski
Jessica
Marie-Luisa Capozzi
Julian
Colin West
Phoebe / Poopay
Sylvia Day
Reece
Paul Hankes Drielsma
Ruella
Christine Eusebio
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
BEHIND THE SCENES
Stage Managers
Angela David, Karen Siber
Production Coordinator
Claudia Wicki
Set Design
Christian Brandenburg
Lighting Design
Andreas Stahl of Eichenberger Theatre Lighting
Lighting Team
Nils Emerson, Enel Miller, Jan Sinstadt, Jay Travis
Sound Design
Terry Menard
Sound Team
Susan de Paul, Martin Russell, Yael Teitler
Properties
Jeannie Baer, Janet Evard, Sally Krauer, Sheila von Arx, Claudia Wicki
Prompters
Paul Day, Tom Hofmaenner
Make-Up
Maureen Grimm, Sylvia Hintermeister
Wigs
Sylvia Hintermeister
Costumes
Claudia Bodmer, Tania Khanschassoff
Front Of House
Joan Bridgman, Lynda Klomann, Members of the Club
Box Office
Deborah Somers, Members of the Club
Programme Editor
David Roscoe
Programme Design
Peter Schietinger
Title Artwork
Noeleen Blaich
Photography
Firman Burke
Publicity
Martin Russell