Cast

Synopsis

An attractive widow picks up a ‘down and out’ to impersonate her late husband in order to inherit. She doesn’t bargain for the fact that she will fall in love with him! The play twists and turns to a stunning climax.

Directors Notes

Eric Elice, an American, has in his time been involved with both theatre and television (soaps to Shakespeare), a playwight, Creative Director of a theatrical advertising agency, a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and currently serves as Creative Consultant to The Walt Disney Company. Roger Rees was born in Wales and has had great success as an actor, appearing at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in films and television, gaining Tony and Olivier awards along the way. His career started in the 1970s and he is still actively participating in productions. He is also a director, a writer and involved in stage design.

Somewhere in their busy lives these two collaborated in writing ‘Double Double’, a play which has been variously described as a dark thriller, a romantic thriller and “an attempt to inherit a fortune surrounding a love affair”. We’ll leave you to decide which is the most appropriate.

A “two-hander” is always of interest – a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is to create the variety of pace, of voice and staging that keeps the audience involved and interested in what happens to the characters on stage. The opportunity is for the actors to create three-dimensional, believable characters with all the strengths and weaknesses, mannerisms and foibles we observe in people in our daily lives and to keep the story moving and believable when the task is not shared with five or six other actors. We hope to achieve all this in tonight’s performance.