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28 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com WK The <strong>Champion</strong> • Wednesday 28 November 2012<br />
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NO wonder Patrick Barlow’s interpretation<br />
of ‘The 39 Steps’ has been running for six<br />
years in the West End for it is a roller coaster<br />
ride of fun from start to finish.<br />
Stephen Hughes–Alty and John Delahunty,<br />
the Laurel and Hardy of the SDC, were superb<br />
as the two clowns playing 130 parts between<br />
them and couldn’t have worked harder as they<br />
changed roles, voices, costumes and sets by the<br />
minute whilst a portly Adrian Roberts,<br />
complete with a bushy moustache, played the<br />
part of the upper–crust Englishman, Richard<br />
Hannay, to perfection.<br />
Totally convincing in her Beth Milligan<br />
started off as seductive foreign spy, Annabella<br />
Schmidt, then became Margaret, a<br />
downtrodden Scottish landlady, and ended up<br />
in Hannay’s arms as Pamela, looking the<br />
image of Marilyn Monroe.<br />
The timing was spot on except when it<br />
deliberately went wrong, as when the phone<br />
continued ringing after it was answered or the<br />
gun fired several seconds after the trigger was<br />
pressed, both of which had the audience in<br />
stitches.<br />
The music was carefully chosen to match the<br />
plot so for the train ride we got ‘Coronation<br />
Scot’ (remember Paul Temple?), the signature<br />
tune, ‘Startime’ for the London Palladium<br />
scenes, bagpipes over the border and a<br />
wonderful snatch of ‘Roses of Picardy’ by<br />
Stephen Hughes–Alty that would have John<br />
SDC performed The 39 Steps. ©Fletcherhill<br />
Photography.<br />
Code NA<br />
McCormack turning in his grave.<br />
The plot remained pretty true to the original<br />
John Buchan novel with Hannay being chased<br />
across Scotland by police and spies and ending<br />
up with Mr Memory at the London Palladium<br />
and a hilarious scene where he wrestles with a<br />
dummy that a minute ago was a person.<br />
The show was very reminiscent of the ‘Dick<br />
Barton’ play the company put on in 2011 and,<br />
like that, owed a lot of its style to The Goon<br />
Shows.<br />
One of the best plays for a long time and every<br />
credit to director, James Hughes–Alty, for<br />
managing to organise 33 scenes at non–stop<br />
pace, co–ordinating the music and sound<br />
effects and never once descending into chaos.<br />
Star rating: 8 out of 10. An exhilarating<br />
evening.<br />
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