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Production Details
206th Production - Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn
Presented at Lowther Pavilion - 14 to 17 October 1998 and also at the Flletwood Drama Festival on 19 October 1998.
Directed by Di Prutton.
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Outline of Play
The year is 2014 and Phoebe (Poopay), a prostitute specializing as a "dominatrix", is summoned to a sixth-floor suite in a five-star London hotel by an infirm elderly businessman, Reece, who wants her to perform an unusual service: to witmess a document detailing the murder of his two wives by his business associate Julian.
When Julian walks in, Poopay disappears through the nearest door and finds herself in an identical suite but in the year 1994. Not surprisingly its occupant, Ruella, Reece's second wife, is sceptical about Poopay's explanation but when she too goes through the door and finds herself in the same suite in 1974 with Reece's first wife Jessica, she decides to rewrite the future.....
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Synopsis of Scenes
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The action takes place in a suite in the Regal Hotel, London WC2.
The time is May 1974, October 1994 and July 2014.
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Cast
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Reece, a businessman
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Rod Pothecary
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Jessica, his first wife
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Kelly Neale
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Ruella, his second wife
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Lesley Jarvis
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Julian, his business associate
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Alan Glendinning
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Phoebe (Poopay), a prostitute
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Lisa Ellis
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Harold Palmer, a house detective
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David Lee
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Stage Crew
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Stage Manager
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Chris Jones
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Assistant Stage Managers
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Roger Prutton and Cliff Antcliffe
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Sound
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Michael Ward
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Lighting
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Tim Edwards
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Set Design and Construction
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Michael Ward, Don Killip and Ray Butterfield
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Prompt
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Shirley Croasdale
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Properties
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Carol White
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Set Dressing
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Heather Town
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