Espionage, international conspiracies and murder in Tryst Theatre’s latest show
Members of Tryst Theatre are busy preparing for their new November show.
The cast will perform The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow at Behind the Wall next month.
It's a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud comedy spoof based on Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film and John Buchan’s thriller novel.
This latest offering comes after the fun of the club's last show, Dull Men Go Dating.
In The 39 Steps, Richard Hannay, a man bored with life, meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon a mysterious organisation called “The 39 Steps” is hot on Hannay's trail.
Balancing suspense with slapstick, the frantic manhunt takes the audience from the bustling streets of London to the remote Scottish Highlands.
Five actors – Rhona McColl, Brian Paterson, Brian Tripney, Steve Baker and Jim Allan – play over 150 characters including milkmen, a memory man, spies, policemen, evil Germans, femmes fatales, mysterious men under street lamps, shadow puppets, train passengers and hoteliers, switching effortlessly between these characters, genders and accents in seconds using lightning-fast changes.
With a touch of Monty Python-style humour, there's an onstage plane crash, handcuffs and some good old-fashioned romance. And using various handy props, they cleverly evoke everything from a train to the Forth Bridge.
Director Jim Allan said: "Fast, fun and frothy, The 39 Steps is an action-packed whodunnit bursting with madcap energy, sheer physical skill, clowning and non-stop laughs.
"It won two Tony Awards and the Laurence Olivier Award for the Best New Comedy so it certainly is top-quality live theatre and I know our Behind the Wall audiences will love it."
Tryst's The 39 Steps runs from Sunday, November 8 to Friday, November 13 in Behind the Wall, Melville Street, Falkirk. Doors open for pizza and drinks at 7pm with the show starting at 8pm.
Tickets, £15 plus booking fee, are available now from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/trysttheatre
The 39 Steps is adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan. This amateur production of The 39 Steps is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.