Missing some beats

Taken alone, political thrillers and farce can be tricky beasts to pull off. Put them together and you really have to have everything honed to the sharpest point possible for the laughs to land without completely diluting the dramatic tension. The 39 Steps already has a convoluted history. Patrick Barlow’s 2005 parody was adapted from […]
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