Alarms And Excursions
by Michael Frayn

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"Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Guardian)

Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together.

But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzzers, warblers, beepers and cheepers, all trying to warn them of something.

What are these electronic voices trying to tell them?

Can they understand the mysterious disasters 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...

Publication

Publisher Methuen
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 130
Place London
Language English
ISBN-13 9780413732804
ISBN-10 0413732800
eISBN-13 9781350013094
LCCN 98063780
LCC PR6056.R3A77 1998

Alarms And Excursions is a British play written by Michael Frayn and published by Methuen in London (1998).

Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781350013094).

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