The 39 Steps (Patrick Barlow) with Pamela removing her stockings

I hope that there's still this common theme left in theaters around the world of having fun. People need to laugh again more, right now and for ever more, and a play or a performance should reflect that sentiment. Set in England and Scotland in the 1930, The 39 Steps is a Patrick Barlow adaptation of the novel written by John Buchan and, of course, the Alfred Hitchcock movies. Thus a real Hitch-like mood should be created with lighting, music, costume, language and accents. And there should be also many accents flying around the stage, some better than others, but all understandable and fun-like.

When young I wasn't able to appreciate what is one of cinema's sexiest and funniest and wrongest scenes. And then I got older and I was. The two main characters, Richard and Pamela have just run away from two fake and murderous policemen. They reach a really quaint Highland inn, where Richard pretends they have eloped and obtains a single room, with double bed, for them to share. Pamela isn't sure whether she's being abducted by a charismatic murderer or a handsomely decent type. Personally I could switch the gender of the two parts so very easily, or even have two women play the two parts. That would be fun indeed to sit in a theater at winter for

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