Alarms & Excursions

Thrapston Amateur Dramatic Society (TADS) will present ‘Alarms & Excursions’, a series of short plays by Michael Frayn. Directed by Sarah Jones at the Thrapston Plaza, from Wednesday 22nd – Saturday 25th April 2015. Doors open at 7pm, performance starts at 7:45pm.

Alarms & Excursions examines (with hilarity) the difficulties modern technology has added to life. In Alarms, two couples embark on a dinner party that is doomed to failure as, one by one, labour saving devices and even furniture become hostile. Doubles sees two couples having similar problems in adjacent hotel rooms. In Leavings, the dinner party is revisited to great amusement. In Look Away Now, passengers ignore the airline’s safety lecture. Heart to Heart deals with the impossibility of communication at a noisy cocktail party. Glasnost presents a political speech that is sabotaged by a harassed auto-cue operator. The final play, Immobiles, is acted out entirely over the phone as a couple try to decide where they should meet their German guest: Gatwick or Heathrow?

Tickets £6 (concessions £5, all nights) will be available from The Booking Office, The Thrapston Plaza from Monday 6th April (closed Sundays) 10am – 2pm. Due to the construction work currently taking place at the Plaza, the Telephone Bookings (10am – 7pm only) may be made from the earlier date of 27th March on 07543 321219.