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39 Steps

Trafalgar Theatre

4.7/5 based on 663 reviews (read reviews)

Booking until: Friday, 27 September 2024
Running time: 2hr. Incl. 1 interval.

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39 Steps description

This is one of Britain's favourite films. It’s also a rip-roaring stage comedy that leaves you breathless, returning to the West End to make you laugh. Grab tickets for a fast-paced comedy delivering at least one laugh a minute, with all 139 roles played by four actors.

The fun is back in theatreland, this time around directed by Nicola Samer. Richard Hannay is played by The Crown and Bridgerton star Tom Byrne who races through a series of dastardly deeds and deadly murders, meets secret agents and seduces devastatingly beautiful women. Safeena Ladha plays Annabella Schmidt, Pamela and Margaret. Eugene McCoy plays Clown 1 and Maddie Rice is Clown 2. The Understudies are Jacob Daniels and Hannah Parker.

The creative team is just as talented. We have the designer Peter McKintosh, lighting designer Ian Scott, sound designer Mic Pool and director of movement Toby Sedgwick. The Casting is by Abby Galvin.

Here’s where madcap action meets a classic plot

The legendary chase on the Flying Scotsman, the hero's escape on the dark, forbidding Forth Bridge, the terrifying bi-plane crash and even the famously death-defying finale, you’ll be on the edge of your seats as the action unfolds.

A deserving winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2007, the cast of four work at breakneck speed to change roles and characters, sometimes using just a hat. You're so caught up in the tale it's all perfectly believable. Accents, gender and age change in a flash. The timing's excellent. It's a masterpiece in slapstick and the props bring it to even more startling life. What a hoot.

The simple set miraculously morphs into different landscapes in the blink of an eye. And there's enough cheesy humour to keep you giggling all night.

Playing at Trafalgar Theatre

14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY GB (venue info)

Directions

Age restrictions

Ages 8+.

Important information

Please note that strobing lights (30sec), flashing lights, haze, smoke, smoking of herbal cigarette, guns on stage (not real) with sound effects feature in the production.