An overly glammed up Helen Mirren plays Hitch's wife, Alma.
Plotwise though, we could have been playing Hitch bingo.
In Hitchcock, set around the making of Psycho in 1959-60, Anthony Hoplays plays Hitch, with Helen Mirren as a sexed-up version of his long-suffering wife and creative collaborator, Alma Reville (for which she is up for a Bafta and a Golden Globe).
Psycho weaves its way through the whole play, while Hitch's desire to dominate and transform the Janet Leigh stand-in into a lost love object reminds us of Vertigo.
All you have to do is press "play" and hitch a ride to your peaceful core.
But I had also gone into it with a puritanical belief that dramatists should write their own plays, not hitch a free ride by adapting other people's.
For an unnerving demonstration of the Welles-Herrmann effect, listen to a Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air broadcast of Lucille Fletcher's radio play "The Hitch-Hiker," in which a man is followed everywhere by a spectral figure who makes him question the reality of his life.
Meanwhile, Federer, who remains president of the Player Council, appears to be juggling tennis politics, family and tournament play without a hitch.
The Girl's Hitch, played by Toby Jones, is a full-blown sexual predator.
