“The 39 Steps” (Cloverdale Playhouse): Review
“Have you ever heard of the thirty-nine steps?” Anabella said. “What’s that? A pub?” Hannay said.
If like Hannay you think “The 39 Steps” is a pub, then, you obviously missed the delightful tale of murder, espionage and comedy that played at Montgomery’s Cloverdale Playhouse in February. As a first-time audience member, I found the playhouse’s charming, comical production of John Barlow’s award-winning adaptation to be a warm introduction to Montgomery community theater.
The play is based on John Buchan 1916’s novel and was introduced to the stage in 2006. Since then, it has been played in many theater stages across the country and deemed as “absurdly enjoyable” by The New York Times. But you don’t have to be a theater buff or a reader of early 1900s literature to have heard of this ...