The solid and crew of Stranger Things play The First Shadow are nonetheless rehearsing for his or her huge debut in London’s West Finish later this 12 months, however they took the time to document a brand new video to drop recent story particulars.
Patrick Vaill, who portrays a younger Dr. Martin Brenner on this prequel story, says the play will inform “the origin of Stranger Issues” and “the origin of the Upside Down.” Producer Sonia Friedman provides, “It is also the origin story of how Henry Creel grew to become Quantity One.”
Provided that Henry/One/Vecna will certainly be within the fifth and last season of Stranger Issues, the play will have tie-ins to series. “There are such a lot of Easter eggs,” The First Shadow scribe Kate Trefry says. “It is Easter morning.”
Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot), will see the arrival of the Creel household in 1959 Hawkins, Ind. Louis McCartney might be enjoying troubled psychic wunderkind Henry Creel, whereas Michael Jibson will play father Victor Creel (performed by Robert Englund within the collection) and Lauren Ward will play mom Virginia Creel (performed by Tyner Dashing within the collection).
Stranger Issues creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer name Ella Karuna Williams’ Patty Newby “a brand new, actually necessary character.” Says Trefry, “The primary thrust of the story is Patty and her little budding romance with Henry.”
“Everybody’s attempting to determine their lives in highschool,” Williams provides within the video.
Manuel Harlan/Netflix, Steve Dietl/Netflix The origins of Henry Creel/Vecna are instructed in ‘Stranger Issues: The First Shadow’ stage play
Apart from Vaill’s Brenner, the play will even see Oscar Lloyd as younger James Hopper, Isabella Pappas as younger Joyce Maldonado, and Christopher Buckley as younger Bob Newby. Different solid members in identified roles embrace Shane Attwooll as Chief Hopper, Kemi Awoderu as Sue Anderson, Chase Brown as Lonnie Byers, Ammar Duffus as Charles Sinclair, Gilles Geary as Ted Wheeler, Florence Man as Karen Childress, Max Harwood as Allen Munson, Matthew Pidgeon as Father Newby, Calum Ross as Walter Henderson, and Maisie Norma Seaton as Claudia Henderson.
Jamie Harrison, a co-illusion designer and visible results artist, says there might be “plenty of monsters, plenty of blood-and-gut results,” and “plenty of vanishes and appearances.”
Stranger Issues: The First Shadow opens on the Phoenix Theater in London on Dec. 14 with previews kicking off Nov. 17. Watch the total video above.
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