BLT Shows

Back From The Brink: Comedy In Context

Nestled inside its entertaining framework, the world of The 39 Steps harbours a spectre of war that is both past and present.

From Page to Stage: The Many Faces of The 39 Steps

With an over 100-year history of twists, turns, reinventions, and evolutions, the now-iconic spy caper The 39 Steps has darted down a long a

Regional Flourish: The 39 Steps Glossary of Slang

Set amidst a sweeping range of locales throughout the United Kingdom, much of The 39 Steps and its multitudes of characters is a linguistic

The Trojan War: Myth, Adaptation, and Modernity

The Trojan War has inspired more literary and theatrical works than one can recount. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides all wrote about...

Hecuba, Survivor

Marina Carr begins her Hecuba in media res: “So I’m in the throne room,” Hecuba tells us, “Surrounded by the limbs, torsos, heads,...

Haunting Hecuba: The Direction and Design

When it came time to choose a “style play” for their second turn at directing in the Bleviss Laboratory Theatre, Brett Dahl found...

DRAMATURGY: DIG DEEPER