Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps

by Patrick Barlow

Sound Design

The Utah Shakespeare Festival 2010

Director Eli Simon
Scenic Designer Jo Winiarski
Costume Designer David Mickelson
Lighting Designer Jaymi Lee Smith
Sound Designer Joe Payne

Whenever four actors play multiple roles in a setting that is comprised of furniture on casters, you can count on a lot of sound cues to tell the audience where we are. Couple that with clowns, vaudeville, murder, and mystery, and you have the ingredients for hundreds of sound cues. Here are a few of my favorite, but just the tip of the iceberg.

Examples*

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