This stage prequel to the popular Stranger Things Netflix series is welcoming groups to discover a whole new adventure that takes audiences further back to the start of the story - which may hold the key to the end.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is running at London’s Phoenix Theatre with ten or more people able to save money on tickets. It’s taking bookings until 25th August, 2024.
Set in the town of Hawkins, 1959, a young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start. Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy, and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.
Shane Attwooll stars as Chief Hopper, Kemi Awoderu as Sue Anderson, Chase Brown as Lonnie Byers, Christopher Buckley as Bob Newby, Ammar Duffus as Charles Sinclair, Gilles Geary as Ted Wheeler and Florence Guy as Karen Childress.
The Duffer Brothers, creative producers and creators of the Stranger Things television series, said: “The cast of Stranger Things: The First Shadow is nothing short of phenomenal.
“These actors brilliantly explore the early days of many fan favourites - including Hopper, Joyce, Bob, Henry and Dr Brenner - while also bringing new characters to vivid life. We couldn’t be more thrilled.”
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The rest of the main cast is made up by Max Harwood as Alan Munson, Michael Jibson as Victor Creel, Oscar Lloyd as James Hopper Jr., Louis McCartney as Henry Creel, Isabella Pappas as Joyce Maldonado, Matthew Pidgeon as Principal Newby, Calum Ross as Walter Henderson, Maisie Norma Seaton as Claudia Yount, Patrick Vaill as Dr Brenner, Lauren Ward as Virginia Creel and Ella Karuna Williams as Patty Newby.
Anika Boyle, Faith Delaney and Imogen Turner alternate the role of Alice Creel.
The show is written by Kate Trefry, directed by Stephen Daldry and is based on the hit Netflix show which debuted in July 2016.
It quickly become one of Netflix’s most popular television series and its fourth season alone amassed more than 140 million views globally.
Rooted in 80s nostalgia, Stranger Things has sparked a resurgence of pop culture items from the decade with every new season, including Eggo waffles and New Coke.
Most recently, the series breathed new life into Kate Bush’s track Running Up That Hill with the song soaring in streams on Spotify and entering the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in its 38-year history.
For more information about the production coming to the Phoenix Theatre, London, go to uk.strangerthingsonstage.com.
