The play takes place in three time periods: 1919, when a short film featuring a blonde woman was shot which later fascinated Alfred Hitchcock; 1960, during the filming of Hitchcock's classic Psycho; and 1999, when a media studies professor and one of his students, another blonde woman, discover the 1919 film and re-examine Hitchcock's work through its lens.
Its American premiere was at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California in February–March 2006.
Paul Taylor of The Independent noted that only in "a few sequences [did] the show exert the requisite fascination" and that parts of the play "strain[ed] credulity".
[3] Sean Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times acknowledged "some fine writing" in the play and summed it up as "[a] brainy bit of titillation, salted with some deep thoughts on Hollywood's dark powers and the unseemly genius of the famously morbid British director [Hitchcock]".
[5] Steven Oxman of Variety said that it "possesses a sharp visual impact but a dull emotional and intellectual one.