DIRECT from the West End, Broadway and 25 countries around the globe comes Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller The 39 Steps, recreated as a smash hit Olivier Award winning Best New Comedy.

The show follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gungho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.

Featuring just four fearless actors, playing 139 roles in 100 minutes of fun and thrilling action, director Patrick Barlow’s adaptation is nothing if not fast-paced.

He told Lorelei Reddin: “It makes people laugh a lot and Hitchcock was ingenious the way he put it all together – chases and cases and so much physicality.

“It’s identical to the show that’s been in the West End really.

Different actors, who bring different things to it, but definitely the same in essence. They do it in such an entertaining manner and it’s so believable. The train is basically made up of two chairs, but you really think you are on a train. The sound effects are just brilliant! It requires far less imagination than you think it should.

People often come out saying I really felt I was there and that’s the power of theatre.

“I’ve seen The 39 Steps in Russia, Tokyo and South Korea and, although the actors are very different and they laugh at different things, it just makes people laugh and it doesn’t matter what country you’re in.”