A dream play for technophobes

Alarms and Excursions is a series of eight plays that examine the amusing consequences of what happens when the modern world goes wrong.

Technophobes will be delighted to find proof that the new technology designed to make our lives easier often just proves to be a new form of torment.

Sit down and laugh as four friends try to have a quiet evening but are faced with bells, buzzers and even a high-tech corkscrew, chortle as a German tourist ends his holiday in A&E because of an ever-changing answerphone and guffaw as an in-flight announcement ends in more than a seatbelt coming undone.

The evening will be presented by four actors including Ampthill’s Robert Daws, known for his role as Dr Gordon Ormerod in the ITV drama The Royal.

He is joined by Belinda Lang, who acted in 2 Point 4 Children, Aden Gillett from the classic BBC series The House of Elliot and Serena Evans, who starred alongside Rowan Atkinson in the BBC comedy, The Thin Blue Line.

The play was written by Michael Frayn, one of the country’s most highly regarded playwrights and novelists and one of the foremost translators of Chekov.

You can catch it at Milton Keynes Theatre from Monday, July 11 to Saturday, July 16.

Performances start at 7.30pm with additional matinees on the Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm.

Tickets cost from £10 to £27 plus a booking fee and are available from the box office on 0844 871 7652 or online at www.ambassadortickets.com/miltonkeynes