The 20th-century films of Alfred Hitchcock keep coming back as 21st-century stage productions. For some, that makes perfect sense as they were theatrical works first – the director’s movies of Rope, Dial M for Murder and Blackmail all started out as plays. Today, Dial M for Murder is still doing the rounds in productions taking their cues from the film and Blackmail has also been revived. Some, like a stage version of The Birds, went back to the source material of the Daphne du Maurier short story.
As well, there have been plays about the master of suspense himself and his proclivities, such as David Rudkin’s The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock and Terry Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde.
The most successful stage reimagining of a Hitchcock film has been , which has been performed around the world since first becoming a hit in London’s West End
