Auckland Theatre Company's stage version of Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest delivers all of the thrills and spills of the classic film, with heightened suspense played out in live theatre. 

Ryan O'Kane leads as suave advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill, whose uneventful life is turned upside down when a case of mistaken identity turns him into a framed fugitive thrust into a world of spies, manhunts, mystery and romance. The harried Thornhill ends up on a cross-country journey, meeting the beautiful and mysterious Eve Kendall (Antonia Prebble) along the way.

Jessie Lawrence and Daniel Watterson also support the cast with the complex roles of understudying multiple leads.

In this spectacular blockbuster of a production, the twists, turns and tensions of Hitchcock’s masterpiece come to life on stage, complete with car chases, plane crashes and the famous final cliff-hanger on Mount Rushmore.