A COMICAL re-telling of a classic Hitchcock thriller will be coming to a Chester theatre this month. Chester Little Theatre, on Gloucester St, will stage the Tony award winning from Saturday, January 11 until Saturday, January 18, with performances at 7.30pm.
The production will be directed by Lexie Fox-Hutchings. Based on Alfred Hitchcock's classic film adaptation of the John Buchan novel, this hilarious, fast-paced version adapted for the stage by Patrick Barlow was first performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2005. The original London production, by arrangement with Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Limited, opened at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn in 2006 and later that year transferred to the Criterion Theatre in the West End.
Described as a classic Hitchcock thriller mixed with a dash of Monty Python, is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 characters played by a talented cast of just 4 actors, an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance. Speaking about the production, Lexie Fox-Hutchings said: “As much as I love directing theatre now, the idea of being a director didn’t occur to me for a long time. I would enjoy watching shows and being involved in productions wherever I could, but I didn’t feel the spark of inspiration that compels people to take on the directing of an entire production.
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