Well, it was time to head back down to the Guthrie to see The 39 Steps. The show is about a 'low level' secret agent who finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit and on the run through most of the show. The main character, Richard Hannay, tells his life story through an Alfred Hitchcock meets James Bond meets Maxwell Smart thriller that is full of laughs.
This was my cup of tea and I loved it.
The show has four actors in it. The lead, Richard Hannay (played by Robert Berdahl) plays himself throughout the whole show; while the other three play multiple characters (sometimes playing two at once) throughout the show (Sarah Agnew covers the women's roles while Jim Lichtscheidl and Luverne Seifert play the other roles. The latter two are appropriately called "Clowns" in the program. Though they never really play the role of a clown in the show....their crazy and funny antics throughout make it quite appropriate to call them that.
In the end, the mystery is solved and Hannay goes free. Not before he has to run all over England and Scotland trying to get away from the law. From shacking up with a farm family, to getting caught in a traffic jam of sheep, to climbing out of a window of a train and escaping police, to disguising himself as a Scottish dancer (this was too funny to explain here....you have to see it) - Hannay exposes a covert group called The 39 Steps and saves England from losing state secrets to a foreign country.
Go see it if you like fun theater that doesn't make you work too hard mentally...this is the kind of theater I enjoy. You will get a good chuckle out of it and also see some great acting in pulling off some of the stunts. The show runs until December 19th on the McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie.
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