STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW, a brand new play written by Kate Trefry, will obtain its world premiere in late 2023 on the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End, directed by Stephen Daldry with co-direction by Justin Martin.
This new play by Kate Trefry, a author and co-executive producer for the TV sequence of Stranger Things, will likely be rooted within the mythology and world of the Netflix international phenomenon.
Hawkins, 1959: an everyday city with common worries. Young Jim Hopper’s automotive received’t begin, Bob Newby’s sister received’t take his radio present significantly and Joyce Maldonado simply needs to graduate and get the hell out of city. When new scholar Henry Creel arrives, his household finds {that a} recent begin isn’t really easy… and the shadows of the previous have a really lengthy attain.
Brought to life by a multi-award-winning inventive workforce, who take theatrical storytelling and stagecraft to a complete new dimension, this gripping new journey will take you proper again to the start of the Stranger Things story – and will maintain the important thing to the tip.
Created by the Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things debuted on Netflix on 15 July 2016. Its fourth season (launched in 2022) tops the Netflix Most Popular English TV listing at #1 with 1.35 billion hours considered; the third season launched in 2019 nonetheless holds at #6 with 582.1 million hours considered. The sequence has garnered over 70 awards worldwide together with Emmys and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and has been nominated for over 230 awards. Recently Stranger Things accomplished its record-breaking fourth season to very large acclaim, turning into the most important premiere weekend ever for an English-language TV present on Netflix.
Further ticket info, on-sale particulars, efficiency schedule, full inventive workforce and casting to be introduced at a later date.