Alarms and Excursions
From: Monday, 4th July 2011
To: Saturday, 9 July 2011
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Synopsis
Riotous and hilarious comedy. Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzers, warblers, beepers and cheepers, all trying to warn them of something. What are these electronic voices so urgently trying to tell them? Can they understand the mysterious messages before disaster strikes? It's a race against time- because there are seven more plays and twenty more characters still to come before the evening is through, plus a lot more strange noises - and increasingly desperate calls from eleven separate pay-phones.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 4 July 2011
You can be the geekiest of geeks and the nerdiest of nerds, but still be wrong-fingered by the latest technological update. You might be the most blasé of holidaymakers or the most sophisticated of dinner-party hosts, but still be wrong-footed by the straightforwardly unexpected. Michael Frayn’s eight short plays, first staged in 1998, explore these aspects of progress’s relentless march.
What goes wrong as Alarms & Excursions whisks us from one farcical disaster zone to the next? Absolutely everything, is the reply – and it’s one which left the Cambridge audience shouting for more at the curtain calls. Remote controls, timers and multiple handsets bedevil the two couples hoping for a relaxed dinner party in Doubles and Leavings. Identikit hotel bedrooms turn another pair of couples’ holiday into a hell-break.
Corporate get-togethers leave the three executives in Toasters wishing that they had more hands...
Creative
Michael Frayn (Author)
Ian Fricker (Producer)
Richard Temple (Producer)
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