People are constantly escaping in this spoofy stage version of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock noir thriller. Our hero, Richard Hannay (deliciously arch Charles Edwards), evades killer spies, the police and a diabolical German professor from England to Scotland and back again. Escape is also pretty much all this amusing diversion—in which four actors play several dozen characters to bravura comic effect—offers the average theatergoer: 100 minutes of chuckleworthy theatrical silliness that, while never hilarious, is thoroughly clever. Goofy Arnie Burton and Cliff Saunders do a bang-up job with the bulk of the multiple roles.—DC
