North by Northwest at Alexandra Palace Theatre review: bursting with scrappy inventiveness and impish spirit - 3/5 Emma Rice makes this adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller utterly her own ...

There’s a lot of effort put into creating a 1950s Cold War vibe in Emma Rice’s adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, but that jokey 1970s tone overpowers set design, costuming, music, ...