Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

TIME-TRAVEL, SEX, AND MURDER

The year is 2014. You are Poopay, a twenty-something year old dominatrix. You are summoned to the posh apartment of Reece, a man old enough to be your grandfather. You're afraid that any of your usual routines might kill him.
But he wants something quite, quite different . . .

When: Monday May 9, 2005 at 7:00
Where: FIRESIDE ROOM
What: COMMUNICATING DOORS by Alan Ayckbourn
Who: UUCPA Thespians
Why: To romp back and forth over forty years of
time in a single evening.

Of course, not everyone can be Poopay. You might be Julian, a thoroughly despicable character who likes to involve people in fatal "accidents." Or Ruella or Jessica, Reece's former wives. Both are long deceased when the play opens, but very much present as the action progresses.

You see, there is this door to a storage room that no one has used in the 40 years that Reece has lived in his apartment.
Poopay pops in there to escape Julian. When she comes out the room is the same but the year is 1994, and Reece's second wife, Ruella, is there little knowing that she is due to be murdered later that evening.

Instead, Ruella enters the storage room and emerges in the year 1974 to find Reece and his first wife, Jessica, still in the honeymoon stage of their marriage. The newly weds are less than pleased.

Confused? It's really quite simple. The first time you enter the storage room you come out 20 years before "now".
But when you enter and exit again, you are back in the present. - - You don't know what a dominatrix is? Sorry, this is a family website. But if you come to our reading in the Fireside Room at 7 pm, Monday May 9, your can find out - and maybe even be one!

Send me an email: thespians-info@uucpa.org
or call me if you'd like more information.
Let me know you're coming - or just show up.

UUCPA Thespians
Philip Hodge, Chair