WHY DID HITCHCOCK PREFER BLONDES?
Terry Johnson’s gripping black comedy comes to The Brindley Theatre for a strictly limited run. Grace Kelly, Tippy Hedren, Kim Novak: Why did Hitchcock prefer blondes?
Cleverly intertwining three stories concerning legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock Blonde sees Alex, a media tutor suffering from a mid-life crisis, invite Jennifer, one of his students to a Greek villa to examine a long-lost film fragment that Hitchcock made in 1919. Meanwhile, in 1959, Hitch is auditioning a troubled Blonde actress to play Janet Leigh’s body double in the infamous shower scene of his film Psycho, and finally, the lost film is recreated, arguably explaining the director's obsession with persecuted blondes.
Adults Only (adult themes and some implied nudity)
‘IT IS HARD TO THINK OF ANOTHER COMPANY OR VENUE WHICH HAS DONE SO MUCH IN SUCH A SHORT SPACE OF TIME OR HAS PROVIDED AS MUCH FUN IN THE PROCESS’ - OFF WEST END
‘FOR SHEER PRODUCTIVITY IT’S HARD TO BEAT THIS COMPANY’ – 2ND FROM BOTTOM
The Northern Comedy Theatre have won 6 OnComms and a special OneOff award from OffWestEnd along with the SCENESAVER Birthday Honours Award for BEST ENSEMBLE for their DOING series of online plays.
