'Hitchcock changed it a hell of a lot, whereas the play is very much a faithful adaptation of the book. It's a new play and the Guy in the Hitchcock film is a completely different character than the one I'm playing. I didn't feel any pressure at all. As far as I'm concerned I am creating a role. It gives me a lot of freedom.'

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11 September 2000, Electronic Telegraph had this to say about Strangers on a Train:

'The plot, of course, is a peach, with a boozy playboy proposing a plan for two perfect murders after meeting an ambitious architect on a train.  The playboy will kill for the architect, and the architect will kill for the playboy.  Since no one will know that they have met, the police will be baffled when it comes to establishing motive.

Alan Cox is in wonderfully creepy form as the playboy, Charles Bruno, a mother-fixated psychopathic lush who hates his father and quickly develops the homosexual hots for the architect.  Stephen Billington is excellent too as the hapless object of Bruno's affections, a decent, upright man gradually reduced to a state of gibbering terror.  Stage thrillers have all but disappeared in recent years.  This dark, knowing show is a welcome reminder of just how much fun they can be.'