[apologies for duplication]

 

a staged adaptation of hitchcock's *39STEPS* is currently playing in boston  . . .   if you have any interest in hitchcock -- or in the larger question of the relationship between genre and the constructions of meaning -- you probably owe it to yourself to see this, since it raises [or at least suggests] a number of interesting larger questions  . . . it is also immensely entertaining . . . i saw it last night and am only beginning to work through the various ways in which its playing with generic conventions allows for a complex layering of signification -- topics that might be worth exploring on list if others see it and want to share their thoughts

 

but if you're in new england you have to hurry -- it's running here, at the huntington, only through 14 october . . .  it is apparently also running at this time in the west end and is scheduled to open in NY in the winter so if you're lucky enough to be in either of those cities you have more chances to catch it

 

mike