The H Twins

a new play by hope campbell gundlah

Directed by Karen Lange

March 21-April 5, 2026

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When: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm & Sundays at 2pm

Where: Spooky Action Theatre – 1819 16th St NW, Washington, DC

About the show

Pinky Swear Productions presents the professional theater premiere of The H Twins after a successful run in the inaugural District Fringe Festival. Identical twins Hilda & Helga are the blonde-haired, blue-eyed ideal- at least according to Uncle M, the researcher-turned-father-figure who supervises their highly controlled children’s home in 1940s Germany. After accidentally being exposed to American movies and music, the H Twins become convinced they’re destined to be vaudeville stars. But as they develop their song-and-dance acts and fret about impending adulthood, they grow less and less identical- and more and more questioning of their “ideological education” and the experiment in which they’ve been raised. The twins tell their story via a darkly funny, musical, reality-bending variety show.

CAST:

Hope Campbell Gundlah

Hilda

Tess Cameron Gundlah

Helga

John Stange

Uncle M

Nicole Ruthmarie

Nurse B

Carolyn Kashner

Nurse A