You couldn’t fully write the play around them if you wanted to to put it on reliably, but you could probably take some interesting shortcuts. “Oh, the protagonist is supposed to wake up from a nightmare in a nervous sweat? Okay, cut to black while they’re in the nightmare scene; moments later, open the lights on another part of the stage where the identical twin actor is fully dressed in pajamas and wakes up in bed.”
As long as you juggled this right, you could have a character that teleports and changes costumes instantly. I’ve never done theatre, but this sounds versatile.
Ever seen The Prestige?
One of very few movies you can do very little to describe without giving away the movies big moment.
I have seen The Prestige a long time ago! I totally forgot.
I wonder why Christian Bale’s twin bro never acted again after that one.
Or Linda Hamilton’s in Terminator 2, except literally.
This is not uncommon with twin child actors. The Olsen twins in Full House are a famous example
There’s a series on Disney+ called “Pixar in Real Life”. It’s like candid camera, getting random people to react to strange stuff. They had a kid dressed as Dash from The Incredibles ask random people to time him running around a large building and surprising them by doing it impossibly fast. It was actually identical twins
Aaron and Shawn Ashmore are twin actors, I know that although Aaron actually played both of a set of twins in My Brother’s Keeper, Shawn is actually in some scenes.
It was more of a special effects shortcut, but it’s twins playing twins, so I don’t know if that counts!
Would it be an error to make it a comedy?
