The 39 Steps, currently celebrating its sixth year at the West End's Criterion Theatre, will tour the UK in 2013. Based on John Buchan's 1914 spy thriller The Thirty Nine Steps, and adapted for the stage by Patrick Barlow (Desmond Oliver Dingle/The National Theatre of Brent), the Olivier and Tony Award winning production will launch an extensive tour at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 19 January 2013. The 39 Steps is directed by Maria Aitken, with design by Peter McKintosh, lighting by Ian Scott, sound by Mic Pool and movement by Toby Sedgwick. It is presented by Edward Snape for Fiery Angel and Tricycle London Productions with the West Yorkshire Playhouse.