'The 39 Steps' review: The joke in this parody whodunit is the impossibility of the actors' collective task.
Tom Detrinis, Gavin Lee and Zuhdi Boueri in “The 39 Steps” at Drury Lane Theatre.
Back in 1995, a pair of British writers named Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon took an old Alfred Hitchcock movie about an innocent guy on the run and turned it into a wild, challenging ride for four live actors.
The joke in this hit farce was the implausibility of their collective task. “The 39 Steps” was rewritten again by Patrick Barlow in 2005 and, ever since, it has been, as the British like to say, “a good little earner.”; that’s the very theater doing this show again this summer, presumably on the theory that memories are short.
All that said, fans of old-school British farce will likely have a few good laughs in the company of highly skilled physical actors working clever material. The individual scenes in this show are very deftly performed on Angie Weber Miller’s set, it’s the big picture that still needs the work.Where: Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace
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