![]() ![]() Richard Hannay (Isaac Stanmore) and Annabella Schmidt (Rebecca Brewer) Novel, film and comic-romp-play each elevate ‘a jolly good caper’ to a pinnacle in their genre. If Buchan could have seen this comic stage version, which originated in the village halls of Yorkshire in the 1990’s and ended up an international award-winning hit, I like to think he’d be equally pleased. ![]() Buchan met Hitchcock after watching the film and told him that he had improved the story no end. Alfred Hitchcock realized that sex was entirely missing from the novel and introduced many changes in his 1935 film version. From a manic ‘overture’ in which four actors dash around spinning furniture and clothes racks to the last scene in which two of them are finally reduced to posing as the most unlikely of stationary props, The New Vic’s 39 Steps is an out-and-out crowd pleaser. ![]()
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