We will start the evening with a classic farce. The 39 Steps is Patrick Barlow’s award-winning spoof of the Buchan novel and Hitchcock masterpiece. Fresh from its nine-year hit run in the West End, it’s abridged so that the gags are even more outrageous and densely packed.

Undaunted, our ridiculously talented cast of five portray 150 characters in a fast and furious riot of physical theatre – a man is chased across the roof of a hurtling train, there are fight scenes, death scenes, car chases, handcuffs, missing fingers and romance!

With our customary professionalism, we have brought in a Physical Theatre Workshop expert to train our cast to use body movement to tell a story, and to learn stage techniques such as how to hit someone in a fight, how to fall safely, do a stage kiss and create a scene with minimal props (well, we could hardly fit the train or the cars onto the Village Hall stage, could we?)