One hotel room, one ruthless killer, three time periods, and three women determined not to let the past define them. This Alan Ayckbourn comedy has echoes of ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Psycho’ and the time-plays of JB Priestley.

Poopay arrives at the hotel, ready to give her services as a dominatrix for Reece, but things don’t go the way she expects. Finding herself the potential victim of a killer, she flees from the room through a communicating door, only to find herself 20 years in the past . . . Unfortunately, she and Ruella, Reece’s wife who she meets there, are not safe from the killer, and Ruella finds that she too can travel back 20 years through the communicating door, meeting Jessica, Reece’s first wife. Between them they race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends.

Accolades for ‘Communicating Doors’: 1997 Moliere for Best Comedy and 1994 Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy.

Alan Ayckbourn has written 92 full-length plays and is one of the world’s most-performed living playwrights. Knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre, he received the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. His work has been translated into over 35 languages, and is performed on stage and television throughout the world.

CONTENT WARNING – contains mild sexual reference.

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