Preview
Production Season
Spring 2025
Dates of Performance
March 6-8, 7:30pm. March 9, 3:00pm.
Production Staff
By Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by M. Susan Anthony
Recommended Citation
Theatre, DePauw, "Communicating Doors" (2025). All Past DePauw Theatre Seasons. 97, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/commtheatre_past/97
Keywords
undergraduate theatre
Play Summary
Dominatrix Phoebe travels to a 5 star hotel to meet a client-- only to find that he is dying and he has called for her only to witness his secret confession-- of murder. He had allowed his long-time man servant Julian to murder his first and second wives for their money, and he knows that Julian will kill him rather than let him confess. When Julian learns that Phoebe has witnessed the confession, he attempts to murder her too, but Phoebe hides in a closet and discovers that it has a hidden door that is a portal through time. When Phoebe slips through that “communicating door,” she lands in the same hotel --but 20 years earlier-- and she meets the second wife, Ruella, on the evening that she is to be murdered. In a race against time, the two women use the communicating door to warn the first wife, Jessica---but Julian is stalking all of them—in every time period. Will the combined wits of these three women save all of their lives—in time? Described as a “comic thriller” Communicating Doors by Alan Aychbourn was awarded Britain’s “Best West End Play.”