POPULAR comedy The 39 Steps will be performed on stage in Ulverston later this year.

Ulverston Outsiders’ autumn play, directed by Tony Smith, will show at the Coronation Hall from Tuesday November 20 to Friday 23.

Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller is brilliantly and hilariously recreated for the stage as the smash hit Olivier Award-winning comedy.

The 1935 film is very loosely based on the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan. The play adaptation was rewritten in 2005 by Patrick Barlow,and it is this version on which the Outsiders’ production is based.

It is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called The 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets.

The play follows the incredible adventures of the handsome hero, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache, as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.

The script is full of allusions to many of Hitchcock's other films, including Psycho, Vertigo and North by North-West.

This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features four main actors and numerous others playing around 130 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action. The four main roles are played by Duncan Lindsay, Adam Atkinson, Rob O’Hara and Outsiders newcomer Hannah Fishwick, who plays the three female leads.

The 39 Steps runs at the Coronation Hall from November 20 to 23, at 7.30pm each night, and tickets are available from the venue’s box office.