Stranger Things’ play, titled The First Shadow, is coming to London’s West End later this year

stranger things is officially coming to London west end. Check out a teaser below for the game, set a quarter of a century before Netflix smash.

The deadline was announced last year The stranger things creator the Duffer brothers launched a clapboard along with that Stephen Daldrystage play and a variety of other projects, and confirmed today’s news, with Stranger Things: The First Shadow is scheduled to open later this year at the Phoenix Theater with Paul Mescal’s End station longing The round comes to an end.

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stranger things Author Kate Trefry is writing the play based on an original story by the Duffers and Its dark materials clerk Jack Thorne.

The play also counts some of the best in the business among its directors and producers. Acclaimed screenwriter and playwright Daldry is directing with Justin Martin, and 21 Laps is alongside prolific producer Sonja Friedman Productions and Netflix.

The first shadow is let in stranger things Home of Hawkins in 1959, some 25 years before the hit TV series. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister doesn’t take his radio show seriously, and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that starting over isn’t easy and the shadows of the past are far reaching.

Daldry reportedly worked with masters of illusion for a year to create magic tricks and special effects for the play. He set up a series of workshops to help the creative team assess what the effects would look like in production.

“Working with the brilliant Stephen Daldry has been nothing short of inspiring, and Kate Trefry has written a play that is surprising, frightening and heartfelt,” say the Duffer Brothers. “You’ll meet lovable new characters as well as well-known ones on a journey into the past that lays the foundation for the future of stranger things.”

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Friedman, whose credits include The Book of Mormon And ghosts, called stranger things “provided rich and fertile ground to create an incredible story for the stage.”

The Phoenix Theater has become a popular venue for hit shows End station longing The Oscar-nominated Mescal, who stars, is moving from the Almeida later this month. landing stranger things is a big coup. The latest season of the fantasy thriller is Netflix’s most-watched English-language show of all time and stranger things launched the careers of a number of rising young stars and made the Duffers household names.

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