Communicating Doors
From: Monday, 23rd May 2011
To: Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Synopsis
A play about time travel set partly in the past and partly in the future with some intriguing plot. Three women's lives, many years apart, get caught up with each other - can they change the past and still create a future that works? 1996 Writers' Guild Award Winner - Best West End Play.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 23 May 2011
Say “time play”, and the average theatre-goer thinks of JB Priestley. Not necessarily of Alan Ayckbourn. So it helps to pay strict attention from even before the curtain rises on Communicating Doors in the playwright’s own production for the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough and now on tour.
It was written and staged originally in 1994, but has been brought bang up to date. Once you have adjusted to the slightly surreal aspects of the comedy, you can relax a little to savour the author’s skill in timing, the wry comments on social aspirations and attitudes, and the excellence of the cast. But don’t relax or laugh too much – you might miss something important.
Liza Goddard is splendid as Ruella, the no-nonsense wife of Ben Porter’s Reece, a business-man with some dubious global practice and associates. Chief among these is Julian, to whom Ben Jones gives just the right quiet-spoken air which radiates a feline...
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre (Company)
Alan Ayckbourn (Director)
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