Can Stranger Things replicate Harry Potter and save the West End?
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’d never written a play before,” says Trefry, who was brought on to develop a first draft produced by the Duffer brothers and Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne. “I haven’t even seen that many plays and I don’t know the medium or the form at all.” “But they needed somebody who was really plugged into the tone and the mythology – and also somebody who could connect it to the previous seasons, so I was the weirdly unique piece that fit the puzzle.” Since 2016, and now spanning four seasons and seven years, Stranger Things has become the most-watched English-language show in Netflix’s history, capable of creating household names of its child stars and catapulting a decades-old song like Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” to the top of the charts. “But you’ll know within the first 15 minutes of the play exactly what I’m talking about.” Stranger Things is as loved by fans for its visual spectacle as it is for its evocative storytelling. “Why give up that privilege?” ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ opens on 14 December at the Phoenix Theatre London
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