The 39 Steps

The cast of the 39 Steps, currently showing at the Criterion Theatre in London, kindly allowed us into their rehearsals to take some photographs, while they went through some key scenes in the play.

Photography by Elizabeth Blanchet

It all starts with the arrival of a mysterious and undeniably beautiful foreign lady at John Hannay's London apartment

Hannay sets off for Scotland, to see if he can find a clue as to why she dropped dead in his flat

Things take a turn for the worse when he finds himself accidentally handcuffed to another attractive lady, this time of English extraction and blonde

Hot on their trail are a pair of bungling detectives with a natty line in Burberry Mackintoshes and the ability to move lamposts

Betrayed by Pamela, Hanny finds himself at the thick end of a well-turned fist, and immediately suspects that this is no genuine English bobby