New Releases by Michael Frayn

Set at a trade fair in Frankfurt, where a small and successful British firm is selling building components. The subject is work - man's unending sentence to transform and reorganise the contents of the world, to buy and sell, to manufacture, destroy and manufacture again. The characters are the reps and the men who run the firm, longing to escape from work but lost without it, as they use others and find themselves used, as they consume the world and are in the end consumed.

Owen Shorter, professional journalist, and Mara Hill, well known lady novelist, discover at the beginning of the play that they have been sent to Cuba to write for rival color supplements. We follow their progress, together with Ed, an author from Illinois, and their guide, Angel, on their fact finding mission, as they do the obligatory rounds of official visits to sugar cane processing plants, new towns and other industrial show pieces.-2 women, 3 men

A man is suddenly catapulted into a city where anything is possible, as in dreams, but like all dreams, his stay is soon ended.

Implications of the theory of entropy (that the trend of the universe is towards death) is humorously applied to the goings-on in a London newspaper office.