Might the percentages be ever in your favor this October.
The primary-ever dwell stage adaptation of “The Starvation Video games” will start performances on Oct. 20 on the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, a model new 1,200 seat venue located within the coronary heart of London’s vibrant Canary Wharf.
Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson has tailored the primary ebook from Suzanne Collins’ epic sequence and the primary movie from Lionsgate’s iconic movie franchise for this dwell theatrical manufacturing. The manufacturing can be helmed by famend director Matthew Dunster (“2:22 – A Ghost Story,” “Hangmen,” “The Pillowman”).
“The Starvation Video games” franchise encompasses 4 critically-acclaimed novels which have bought over 100 million copies worldwide and been translated into 52 languages, in addition to a blockbuster movie franchise that has grossed greater than $3.4 billion on the worldwide field workplace. Suzanne Collins’ newest “Starvation Video games” novel, the eagerly-anticipated “Dawn on the Reaping,” can be launched by Scholastic on March 18, 2025, and can be tailored into a significant movement image occasion to be launched by Lionsgate on Nov. 20, 2026.
“I’m thrilled that ‘The Starvation Video games’ is within the fingers of gifted playwright Conor McPherson and achieved director Matthew Dunster,” Collins stated. “Connor has performed a unbelievable adaptation, which is sort of distinctive from the screenplay. And Matthew’s immersive, dynamic staging offers the viewers a brand-new approach to expertise the story.”
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In a dystopian future, “The Starvation Video games” ignites an exciting battle for survival, the place 24 younger tributes are pitted in opposition to one another in an enviornment. Katniss Everdeen, a fearless and resourceful heroine, emerges as a logo of insurrection as she fights not just for her life however for the hope of a nation oppressed by a ruthless Capitol.
“Conor McPherson lifts the element and energy from the ebook and movie and has offered us with the sort of taut and harmful play he’s famend for. He honours the younger voice of Katniss Everdeen and places her entrance and centre,” Dunster stated. “We’ve been workshopping the play for over a 12 months with our world class inventive workforce; fastidiously honing our theatrical vocabulary as a result of we need to convey audiences one thing as impactful and edgy as Suzanne Collins’ novel and as passionate and thrilling because the film. However we’re going to do it in our personal manner – within the theatre. We would like our ‘Starvation Video games’ to be uniquely, thrillingly theatrical.”
“As a dad to a teen myself, it’s particularly gratifying engaged on a narrative whose values of resilience and ethical braveness communicate to younger individuals in these unsure instances,” Conor McPherson stated. “Our singular focus is to honour Suzanne Collins’ achievement with a devoted adaptation that’s as thrilling on stage as it’s on the web page. It’s been an excellent pleasure to look at the theatrical language of this present evolving by explosive workshops below Matthew Dunster’s impressed partnership with choreographer Charlotte Broom and their tireless workforce of younger performers.”
Lionsgate’s International Merchandise and Experiences Group provides vital alternatives for the expansion of main movie and tv properties like “The Starvation Video games.” The studio has additionally lined up stage diversifications of “La La Land,” “Soiled Dancing,” “Surprise” and extra, along with a John Wick AAA cell sport and branded points of interest.
“’The Starvation Video games’ is without doubt one of the greatest ebook to film diversifications of all time, inspiring audiences to assume deeply in regards to the world round them and the energy of the human spirit. We’re honored to convey its highly effective story, characters and world to the stage on this newest thrilling chapter,” stated Lionsgate EVP and Head of International Merchandise and Experiences Jenefer Brown.
The Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre is purpose-built to host the world premiere of the stage adaptation of “The Starvation Video games,” the place spectators will really feel like part of the motion in a dynamic within the spherical venue.
“Bringing ‘The Starvation Video games’ to the stage is a unprecedented second, and we knew it demanded an equally extraordinary workforce and venue. This specifically designed theatre is the right house for Panem, permitting our world class workforce to create a transportive, electrifying expertise that absolutely captures the size, depth, and spectacle of Suzanne Collins’ world,” stated Troubadour Theatres joint CEOs and founders Tristan Baker and Oliver Royds. “Each aspect — from the staging to the know-how — has been tailor-made to move audiences proper into the guts of the Video games like by no means earlier than.”
“The Starvation Video games: On Stage” is produced by Oliver Royds, Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons for Runaway Leisure, Isobel David and Umeda Arts Theater, by association with Lionsgate. Tickets will go on sale at 1 p.m. GMT on March 27.
Watch a behind-the-scenes first look:
