Windham Actors Guild presents
The 39 Steps at the Regional AACT Festival in Concord, NH at the Audi Center on
August 27, 2022
About the Show
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance!
The 39 Steps is a parody adapted from the 1915 Novel by John Buchan and the 1935 Film by Alfred Hitchcock. The original concept and production of a four-actor version of the story was by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon. Patrick Barlow rewrote this adaptation in 2005.
The play's concept calls for the entirety of the 1935 adventure film The 39 Steps to be performed with a cast of only four. One actor plays the hero, Richard Hannay; an actress plays the three women with whom he has romantic entanglements; and two other actors play every other character in the show: heroes, villains, men, women, children, and even, the occasional inanimate object.
"The 39 Steps" is present by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Cast & Crew
Director: Debera Lund
Producers: Rana Ata & Jonathan Kaplan
Cast for Competition: Richard Hurley, Wende Ann Donahue, Keith Strang, Jonathan Kaplan, and Rosemarie Kelly
Stage Manager:
Lighting Design & Board: Jackie Fitzgerald-Boyd
Sound Design: Keith Strang
Sound Board: Lillian Strang
Costume Design: Colleen Strang
The original London production directed by Maria Aitken designed by Peter McKintosh lighting designed by Ian Scott sound designed by Mic Pool and movement directed by Toby Sedgwick opened at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn in August 2006 and transferred to the Criterion Theatre in the West End on 14thSeptember 2006. The original production was directed by Fiona Buffini. This production is licensed and the films distributed by ITV Global Entertainment Ltd.
Competiton
Windham Actors Guild (WAG) is excited to bring a cutting of our successful production of "The 39 Steps" to the State/Regional Competition for AACTFest (American Association of Community Theatre) The competition consist of 6 shows with entries from different parts of New England. The Festival runs from August 26-August 27, 2022 at The Audi in Concord, NH. The winner of this State/Regional Competition will continue on to the National Competition in Louisville, Kentucky in June 12-17, 2023.
WAG has been honored to have moved from the State to the Regional Competition with "The Most Massive Woman Wins", and "The Actor's Nightmare". WAG was again honored to win the Regional competition for the "Most Massive Woman Wins" for which we continued on to Rochester, Minnesota for the National Competition in 2017. WAG then participated in the 2021 Virtual National AACTFest Competition for which WAG was selected as 1 of 12 companies, after our initial entry, to perform virtually "The Good Son" for which WAG was honored with 2 awards in Sound and Lighting Design.