(Clinton Small, Michael
Gritten and Loyiso McDonald)
After a sell-out season in Durban over the festive season, Catalina
UnLtd is to present the international spoof comedy hit, The 39 Steps, at the Hexagon Theatre in Pietermaritzburg.
Directed by Themi Venturas, who had to travel to London to
learn the show, The 39 Steps features
Clare Mortimer, Loyiso McDonald and Michael Gritten – all playing a cast of
thousands – with Clinton Small as the lead character, Richard Hannay. The
production marked the Catalina Theatre’s 10th birthday.
The 39 Steps is a
delicious stylised melodrama inspired by the 1935 cult film by Alfred Hitchcock
and adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan. Patrick Barlow’s Olivier Award
and Tony Award winning stage adaptation, memorably filmed by Alfred Hitchcock
in 1935, is in its sixth year on the West End and its fifth year on Broadway.
The premise of the comedy is for the entire cast of the 1935
adventure film to be performed by a cast of four, with actors sometimes playing
multiple characters at once! Nothing has been cut from this hilarious and
spectacular version of Britain’s most spellbinding thriller – legendary scenes
include the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Fourth Bridge, the
first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged and the death-defying (or nearly!)
finale at the London Palladium!
With four actors playing a minimum of 139 roles, it’s the
most astonishing theatrical tour de force
of the year.
Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited and an original
concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon presented by arrangement with Samuel
French Limited, The 39 Steps comes to
the Hexagon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, for
three performances only from April 11 to 13 at 19h30. Tickets R85 (R75 students/seniors).
Booking at Computicket on 0861 915 8000 or visit www.computicket.com
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