The Lady Vanishes
From: Thursday, 4th March 2010
To: Saturday, 6 March 2010
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Aboard a transcontinental train to London, Iris takes a nap in her compartment but wakes to find the friendly old lady who had been sitting next to her is missing. To her dismay when she queries the crew and passengers about the elderly governess' whereabouts, no one recalls seeing her...But why have the shifty physician and the mysterious nun suddenly become so concerned? Is Iris loosing her mind? and how can anyone disappear from a moving train...? Originally filmed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 4 March 2010
The first thing to say about The Lady Vanishes – the stage adaptation of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s scripts for the film of the same name (which they in turn had adapted from Ethel Lina White’s novel The Wheel Spins) – is that it’s extremely clever. The second is that it’s thoroughly enjoyable.
Originally staged as part of the Jill Freud Company’s summer season in Aldeburgh and Southwold, it is on the last two laps of a short tour. The tour should be longer; this is an ideal show for smaller-scale theatres with audiences prepared to be intelligently amused and Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre should be congratulated on seizing the opportunity to become involved with it.
If you know the 1938 film, directed by Hitchcock with Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood in the leading parts, you’ll know the story. If you don’t, never fear – the title leads you gently in as...
Cast
Terry Molloy (Dr Egon Harz)
Penelope Rawlins (Iris)
Darrell Brockis (Gilbert)
Clive Flint (Charters)
Creative
Alfred Hitchcock (film - adapted from the book The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White) (Author)
Triode Productions (Company)
Mark Simpson (Adaptation)
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