Netflix’s Stranger Things stage play coming to the UK revealed as a prequel
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA stage adaptation of Stranger Things is coming to the UK later this year, and producers have revealed it will be a prequel to the series.
Set more than 20 years before the events of Netflix’s hit sci-fi drama, London’s West End production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow will follow existing characters Jim Hopper, Bob Newby and Henry Creel when they were younger.
The play is written by Stranger Things writer and co-executive producer Kate Trefry and directed by The Crown’s Stephen Daldry, with co-director Prima Facie’s Justin Martin.
On Wednesday (March 1), the producers said the new story will open in 1959 in Hawkins as a young Hopper’s car fails to start, Newby’s sister does not take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado tries to graduate and leave.
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