Katniss Everdeen is coming to a stage close to you. 5-time Tony nominee and The Lady from the North Nation playwright Connor McPherson is adapting the primary novel of Suzanne Collins‘s smash hit younger grownup dystopian sequence The Starvation Video games for the stage. The play, primarily based on each the ebook and the Lionsgate movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, will mark the first-ever stay stage adaptation of the franchise with a full manufacturing headed to the West Finish.
Matthew Dunster, the London director behind performs together with 2:22 – A Ghost Story, Hangmen, and The Pillowman, will helm the manufacturing with a “world class inventive workforce” that features set designer Miriam Buether, costume designer Moi Tran, and choreographer Charlotte Broom. The stage adaptation has the blessing of Collins, who penned the four-novel Starvation Video games franchise.
“I’m very excited to be collaborating with the superb workforce of Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster as they create their dynamic and modern interpretation of The Starvation Video games to the London stage,” stated Collins in a press launch.
The announcement of a stage play comes forward of the Starvation Video games’s return to the mainstream with the movie adaptation of the fourth ebook within the sequence, the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, hitting theaters November 17. Directed by Starvation Video games franchise auteur Francis Lawrence and starring West Aspect Story‘s Rachel Zegler, Euphoria‘s Hunter Schaefer, and Oscar winner Viola Davis, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follows occasions that transpired sixty-four years earlier than the primary novel to a younger Coriolanus Snow, effectively earlier than he turns into the chilly and calculating dictator present in The Starvation Video games trilogy.
The Starvation Video games is not the one main franchise getting a British stage adaptation. The Duffer Brothers introduced {that a} stage adaptation of Netflix’s Stranger Issues, a prequel play titled Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, is in growth and headed to the Phoenix Theater within the West Finish in late 2023. Each are following within the footsteps of Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby, a theatrical model extension that debuted in London in 2016 earlier than transferring to Broadway in 2018, the place it’s nonetheless enjoying.
