The Hung Man

by Ian Bonner

A full-length ribald parody/homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock with a cast of four men and one woman. It pokes fun at the homoerotic undertones of films like "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train" and satirizes attitudes toward homosexuality in golden age Hollywood.

A full-length ribald parody/homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock with a cast of four men and one woman. It pokes fun at the homoerotic undertones of films like "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train" and satirizes attitudes toward homosexuality in golden age Hollywood.

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The Hung Man

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: The Master of Suspense himself.

FARLEY: A young aesthete. Based on Farley Granger's character in Rope.

JOHN COLLIER: His "roommate." Based on John Dall's character in Rope.

GRACE: John's fiancée - A conglomeration of the icy blondes of Hitchcock's oeuvre, particularly Grace Kelly's character in Rear Window and Tippi Hedren's in The Birds.

JIMMY: John and Farley's college friend: A conglomeration of Jimmy Stewart's Hitchcock characters, particularly from Rope and Rear Window.

MRS. COLLIER: John's aristocratic widowed mother, based on Constance Collier's character in Rope and other Hitchcock "overbearing mother" figures, including Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, Notorious. (Played by the same actor as Alfred Hitchcock.)

DETECTIVE CARY - A police detective - Based on Cary Grant's character in Notorious. (Played by the same actor as Jimmy.)

Production History

  • Professional, Buffalo United Artists Theatre, 2025
  • Professional, The Ringwald Theatre, Ferndale MI, 2016