‘The 39 Steps’ at Laguna Playhouse

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Director Hunter Foster brings Hitchcock's classic spy thriller to the stage.

By Anne Reid

Alfred Hitchcock probably never imagined his 1935 spy thriller "The 39 Steps" performed by four actors armed with a handful of trunks, chairs and ladders. But that's exactly what audiences can expect when Laguna Playhouse presents the stage adaptation this fall.

Adapted by Patrick Barlow from John Buchan's 1915 novel and Hitchcock's film, "The 39 Steps" follows Richard Hannay, an ordinary Englishman who finds himself caught in an international espionage plot after meeting a mysterious woman claiming to be a spy. When she turns up murdered in his... [ Read the full article for free here ]