Hitchcock Blonde at The Brindley Theatre

Murder mystery meets cinematic history in this gripping and thrilling play which explains legendary film director, Alfred Hitchcocks obsession with blonde leading ladiesTerry Johnsons gripping black comedy comes to The Brindley Theatre for a strictly limited run. Grace Kelly, Tippy Hedren, Kim Novak: Why did Hitchcock prefer blondes?Intertwining three stories concerning legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock Blonde sees Alex, a media lecturer suffering from a mid-life crisis, invite Jennifer, one of his students to a Greek villa to examine a long-lost film fragment that Hitchcock made in 1919. Meanwhile, in 1959, Hitch is auditioning a troubled Blonde actress to play Janet Leighs body double in the infamous shower scene of his film Psycho, and finally, the lost film is recreated, arguably explaining the director's obsession with persecuted blondes.