Last week I went to the Hippodrome to see a production of The 39 Steps. This is a theatrical re-imagination of Hitchcock's famous movie. It took me a little while to warm to the show. While the play is almost an exact replication of the scenes from the movie, the tone of the play is totally different.
The play consists of broad physical humor, with minimal sets. The characters from the movie are recreated on the stage by just four actors. After a while it becomes very impressive to see the movie so faithfully recreated, but at the same time totally changed. It was really a feat for one actor to play multiple characters in the same scene.
A few of the scenes were recreated on the stage with shadow play, as in the scene with the main character being chased by airplanes in the video below. The play also contains numerous references to other Hitchcock films. The airplane chase scene below is a recreation of one of the scenes from Hitchcock's film North by Northwest.
All in all, in was a very original and well acted play.
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