Alarms and Excursions
From: Monday, 27th June 2011
To: Saturday, 2 July 2011
Our Review: 
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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:
Karen Bussell - 29 June 2011
Expecting a riotous evening from the pen of Noises Off writer Michael Frayn and looking forward particularly to seeing Neil Pearson (Drop The Dead Donkey, Bridget Jones) and Only Fool and Horses’s Cassandra (Gwyneth Strong), Alarms and Excursions unfortunately came nowhere near the mark.
Pearson and Strong are not in it at all (by which I do not mean to diminish the actual cast’s ability but I was rather looking forward to experiencing Mr Pearson’s charms first hand) and the content disappointing and dated (amusing as Immobiles is, this has a sell-by date as very soon the majority of the audience will not remember a time when answer machines were the latest mod con).
It’s a collection of humorous pieces based (very loosely or not at all) around the theme of alarms and excursions but, entertaining as moments may be, these would really be more at home in a 70s’ sit com or sketch show.
Produced by Ian Fricker and [Ric...
Creative
Michael Frayn (Author)
Ian Fricker (Producer)
Richard Temple (Producer)
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