Vintage Hitchcock 2017 Fall Play

Spies, murder, love, and other trademarks of Alfred Hitchcock come to life in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast of the master of suspense’s earlier films:The Lodger, Sabotage and The 39 Steps.

Alfred Hitchcock is perhaps the best known and most influential filmmaker in the world, but most people know the Hitchcock of the later period: the director of North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, and the genially macabre host of television’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But there is also a formidable Hitchcock of a far older vintage: Hitchcock before he came to America; before he met Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Grace Kelly; and working at full power even before the days of talking pictures. Grabbing on to early Hitchcock, as Joe Landry does, opens up new realms of suspense, mysterious attractions, the dark roots of everyday behavior, and the everyday roots of dark behavior.