Saturday, 11th May 2024

Steps
Play The 39 Steps
Writer Patrick Barlow
Year 2005
Cast Tom Byrne, Safeena Ladha, Eugene McCoy, Maddie Rice
Details 100 minutes

A vibrant parody of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps film with just four actors playing over 150 roles. Very inventive with moments of genius. Patrick Barlow rewrote an earlier 1996 version of the play.

The plot follows the film pretty closely but the play breaks the fourth wall in delightful ways. In a way only having four actors is a strength not a weakness. A shadow of Hitchcock even appears at one point.