Hitchcock Blonde

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First published to tie-in with the Royal Court Theatre's production in April 2003, with a cast including Alexander Delamere, Victoria Gay, Fiona Glascott and Rosamund Pike, this is the newly revised version of award-winning Terry Johnson's classic play.

A media lecturer and his female protg find some deteriorated Hitchcock footage. It would appear they had discovered some early rushes but what film were they for and who is the mysterious blonde

Hitchcock Blonde is not a play about Alfred Hitchcock, though he may make a cameo appearance. Of the less familiar characters, one is likely to amuse, the other will behave appallingly in a theatrical film noir of genius, lust, death and voyeuristic obsession.

'On the face of it, Hitchcock Blonde is a play about Alfred Hitchcock and women, about sex and desire, and what happens when you have either without the other. It is also a detective story, a biographical fantasy, an intellectual comedy. . . a play about life in films and films in life, about predators and victims...' Sunday Times

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Terry Johnson has won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics Circle Best New Play 1995, Writers' Guild Best Play 1995, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991. His plays include Insignificance, Hysteria and Piano/Forte. His other work includes Dead Funny, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The Graduate, and The London Cuckolds. He has also directed The Memory of Water and The Libertine.