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Communicating Doors
18 October, 2012 - 27 October, 2012
John Marwick directed Alan Ayckbourn’s Communicating Doors on an elaborate set in October 2012. ”
Time for a giggle, a laugh, a shock and a bit of suspense.
Publicity 2012
Have you ever wondered what is behind those locked doors in your hotel room? Playwright Alan Ayckbourn wondered enough to write a play with the mysterious doors as its central theme. He had gazed at the secret doors which always lead to other rooms and which are always locked, giving him what he called a “Tardis feeling” as if you could go through into a different time zone.
The result was his riotous time-travelling comedy-thriller Communicating Doors, Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe’s next 25th anniversary production, opening mid-October.
Director John Marwick describes the play as one of the funniest he has ever directed and full of surprises. “It is a winner for a fun night out and it’s right in your own backyard”, he says. “It is not without its directorial challenges though. Not only does it lurch through three different time zones across 40 years, but the set requires a working bathroom, a revolving door and a balcony on a high rise hotel.”
This is the setting for a series of Dr Who-like scenarios with the added extra of Ayckbourn’s wonderful wit and humour. It will get audiences laughing and puzzling while genuinely delivering suspense and the odd shock. English actress Julia McKenzie who starred in one of the early productions said “if Hitchcock had written a farce, this would be it.” Ayckbourn himself admitted he had drawn on elements of Psycho and Back to the Future, genres that had always intrigued him.