Winner Best New Comedy
Olivier Awards 2007
Direct from the West End and prior to Broadway comes Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated as the smash hit Olivier Award Winning Best New Comedy.
This blissfully funny show follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.
This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features four fearless actors, playing 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action.
All in all, 'The 39 Steps' was the best thing that I've seen at the Theatre Royal this year
BBC North Yorkshire - Read review
A thoroughly enjoyable production that both mocks and celebrates the spy genre
Onstage Scotland - Read review
A bally good show, by Jove!
South Wales Echo - Read review
Spoof spy thriller roles into town: interview with producer Edward Snape
South Wales Echo - Read review
Steps in the right direction
South Wales Argus - Read review
39 Steps to Heaven
Richmond and Twickenham Times - Read review
There aren't many better ways to spend 100 minutes of your life than watching this...
Living in Surrey - Read review
Spies, music hall and shadow puppets combine to make this a memorable night out
BBC Nottingham - Read review
Wonderful show...
BBC Northamptonshire - Read review
Wonderfully inventive...
The Argus, Brighton - Read review
Now that's what I call a triumph...
The Herald & Post Northamptonshire - Read review
Recent Theatre credits include: Max in the premiere of THE WAR NEXT DOOR, Julian Knowles in CALLED TO ACCOUNT and Alistair Campbell in the HUTTON INQUIRY – JUSTIFYING WAR (all for the Tricycle Theatre); THREE SISTERS (Birmingham Rep and UK Tour); BETRAYAL (Sir Peter Hall Company UK Tour); PRESENCE (Plymouth Theatre Royal); QUESTION TIME (Arcola Theatre); THE CHANGING ROOM (Royal Court ); HOLIDAYS (West Yorkshire Playhouse); HELPING HARRY (Jermyn St. Theatre); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Regent's Park); A TASTE OF HONEY (Nottingham Playhouse); GOD SAY AMEN (ESC) and FUENTE OVEJUNA (Royal National Theatre).
Clare trained at LAMDA.
Alan trained at Wimbledon School Of Art and Webber Douglas.
Theatre includes: JENUFA (Arcola Theatre); PRAVDA (Chichester Festival Theatre); THE ODYSSEY (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); TWELFTH NIGHT (West Yorkshire Playhouse); THE ODYSSEY (Bristol Old Vic/West Yorkshire Playhouse); A RUSSIAN IN THE WOODS, LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (RSC Stratford/Barbican); THE GLORY OF LIVING (Royal Court); ACHILLES (Cottesloe, Edinburgh Festival – Fringe First); ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, OTHELLO, VOLPONE (RSC Stratford/Barbican); HAMLET (Hackney Empire and Broadway); BREAKING THE CODE (Theatre Royal, Northampton); NEVILLE'S ISLAND (Watermill, Newbury); THE MAGISTRATE (Chichester and West End); ST JOAN (Clywd and West End); PERICLES, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Oxford Stage Co.); THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, JANE EYRE (Pitlochry Festival); THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, IVAN VASILIEVICH (BAC); JAMIACA INN (Plymouth); TIME AND THE CONWAYS (Clywd and West End); MACBETH (BAC); PEER GYNT (DOC).
Patrick Barlow created the National Theatre of Brent in 1980, in which he plays Artistic Director and Chief Executive Desmond Olivier Dingle. Their legendary two-man epics for the theatre include THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, ZULU!, THE BALCK HOLD OF CALCUTTA, WAGNER'S RING CYCLE. THE MESSIAH (Tricycle Theatre), THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SEX, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (Tricycle Theatre), LOVE UPON THE THRONE ? THE CHARLES AND DIANA STORY (nominated for an Olivier) and THE WONDER OF SEX at the National Theatre. Their complete history of the world ALL THE WORLD'S A GLOBE (with Jim Broadbent) was transmitted on Radio 4 and won a Sony Gold Award for Best Adapted Comedy and Premier Ondas for Best European Comedy. More recent radio work (with John Ramm and Martin Duncan) includes the COMPLETE AND UTTER HISTORY OF THE MONA LISA which won a Sony Gold for Best Comedy and New York Festival Award for Best Comedy and THE MESSIAH which was transmitted on Radio 4 in Christmas 2006. Most recently the company presented their acclaimed series THE ARTS AND HOW THEY WAS DONE which was transmitted (also on Radio 4) in April 2007. Please refer to nationaltheatreofbrent.com for full and unexpurgated details of the company's work and history.




