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How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings her face to face with her own past and with Ruella who apparently died under suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier. And how Poopay's gradual friendship with that remarkable woman changes the future for both of them . . .
A time-travelling comedy thriller, Communicating Doors was published to coincide with the West End opening in 1995.
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Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a violinist father and a mother who was a writer. He left school at seventeen with two 'A' levels and went straight into the theatre. Two years in regional theatre as an actor and stage manager led in 1959 to the writing of his first play, The Square Cat, for Scarborough's Theatre in the Round at the instigation of his then employer and subsequent mentor, Stephen Joseph. Some 75 plays later, his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards. There have been English and French screen adaptations, the most notable being Alain Resnais' fine film of Private Fears in Public Places. Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Norman Conquests, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., Comic Potential, Things We Do For Love, and, most recently, Life of Riley. In 2009, he retired as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged, after 37 years in the post. He received the 2010 Critics' Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British play wright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is time travel at it's best. When a dominatrix takes a call to oversee a 'bit of fun and pain', the lovable Poopay Dayseer gets more than she bargained for. Not one man, but two waiting for her.... one want's to kill her; one to confess the murder of his two wives. More pain than the fun than she bargained for. In an attempt to escape Poopay finds a door leading not to her rescue, but back in time.... To meet the second wife on the night of her murder...
A fantastically intricate play combining horror, thriller and science fiction in a comic web.
Laura Marr
A fantastically intricate play combining horror, thriller and science fiction in a comic web.
Laura Marr
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Quite Literally, I Laughed, I Cried
23 July 2000
Format:Paperback
This is hard play to describe. I'd call it something like a funny, heart-warming thriller. "Communicating Doors" is the story of a prostitute named Phoebe who is given the chance to save her own life and the lives of two other women when, fleeing a murderer through a communicating door, she finds herself unexpectedly twenty years in the past. This play made me feel a full range of emotions in three hours when I saw it in the theater, and reading it was almost as good. Ruella and Phoebe, the two main characters, are two of the most likable and complex people I've encountered recently in literature. It kept me laughing, and in suspense, right up through the final scene. I rarely give out five stars, but this play deserves it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Alan Ayckbourn, Communicating Doors
20 Jan 2008
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I was completely won over by this play's clever mix of the comic, the fantastic, and the thrilling. It held me riveted until the very end and its main character (Poopay) was a delight. See a good production of it and you'll bound to end up an Ayckbourne fan.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Hilarious!
20 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
Starts quite slowly, but stick with it!! Act II is ridiculous, hilarious, and a wonderful ending.
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