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Cast: Danielle Bird, Mei Mei MacLeod, Mateo Oxley, Phil Yarrow, Charlotte Bloomsbury.

The fast and the curious are given their true sense of exhilaration and thrills in the sublime Patrick Barlow adaption of the John Buchan novel, The 39 Steps, and in dramatic fashion the brilliance of farce and the sheer genius of buffoonery is once more aligned with the stars and the conceit of the spy story is shown for the creativity that the production deserves.