The 39 Steps in Adelaide

They’ve thrown out plausibility and thus have the license to clown around.

Photo credit: Nat Kelly.

In Hitchcock, the line between suspense and comedy has always been thin. The 39 Steps, now showing at Adelaide’s Little Theatre until November 3, erases that line completely. Because of that, for the first time, after having seen Hitchcock’s 1935 film The 39 Steps and the 1915 John Buchan novel it was based on, I actually enjoyed…