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Zany reenactment of ‘The 39 Steps’ in Surrey fashioned hoot.” Patrick Barlow’s comedic adaptation reenacts Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 mystery film nearly verbatim, but with just four actors. The current Arts Club on Tour production welcomes Jay Hindle to the cast (as lead character Richard Hannay, replacing Martin Happer from the 2010 run in Vancouver), and returning players Diana Coatsworth, Shawn Macdonald and David Marr. Gibson loves the stylish, slightly Pythonesque comedy of The 39 Steps, and jumped on the chance to direct the Arts Club production. The show runs at Surrey Arts Centre from Tuesday, Feb. 26 to Saturday, March 9, with other tour stops in Burnaby, Mission, North Van, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge and Coquitlam. “I’d seen a version of it in New York (prior to 2010), and we were
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Director Dean Paul Gibson has a week to “put it all back together again” – a touring version of The 39 Steps, a zany spoof first staged by the Arts Club at its Stanley theatre in the fall of 2010 – and things are going well, apparently. “We’re rehearsing today,” he said in a lunchtime phone interview last Thursday (Feb. 21). “It’s always a good sign for me when the company involved in it – the stage managers and crew and everyone – is laughing. That makes me feel good because I know we’re doing something right, and this show is all about having a good, old-
all quite inspired by the wonderful sort of theatricality of it all, and the sort of poor-man’s-theatre nature of the piece,” Gibson said. “It’s fun to put my own signature on it – I’m not reinventing the wheel here, Tom. Like with all great shows that have universal appeal, like Noises Off and others in the comedic world, that if you follow it (the formula), you’ll be successful, but if you ignore what people have taken great time and care to create, you’re in peril of f***ing up something that is already a recipe for success. So although I’m a chef unto my own, I’m allowed to take some liberties and add some of my own spices, and I don’t mind doing that. Also a big part of that is casting it well, getting the right people and keeping it going.” see › page 18
Arts Club on Tour brings its version of The 39 Steps, a spoof of the Hitchcock movie, to Surrey Arts Centre from Tuesday, Feb. 26 to Saturday, March 9. The show is directed by White Rock-raised Dean Paul Gibson.
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