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Performance
Dates:
February
8,9,10,11,
15,16,17,18
22,23,24
2001
Director:
George
Ainslie
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Show
Synopsis:
Britain's most versatile--
and prolific-- playwright gives us a time-travel
thriller that's still as funny as the best of
his comedies. Hapless dominatrix Poopay
Dayseer (her version of Poupée
Désirée)
goes to a call at a fabulous London hotel, only
to find that her customer wants her to smuggle
his dying confession past the partner-in-crime
who's been watching him like a hawk. In
particular, he confesses to acquiescing in the
partner's successive murders of his two wives
many years before. When the partner breaks
in on them she barely escapes to what looks like
a closet, but turns out to be a revolving room
that deposits her into the same hotel suite TWENTY
YEARS BEFORE-- the very suite in which Ruella,
wife number two, is about to be murdered.
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From here on the play centers
on Poopay and Ruella: their hastily formed and deepening
friendship, their chase through time and distance
to save themselves and wife number one, and their
emerging understanding of each other's worlds.
Like a good toboggan run, Communicating Doors packs
faster and faster reverses near the end, and leaves
us with a feeling of great satisfaction.
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Cast:
Poopay:
Stacy Gallese
Ruella:
Denise George
Reece:
Bob Beizer
Julian:
Tony Tierno
Harold:
Tom Keels
Jessica:
Kristy Boyer Chen
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