Game of Thrones stage play coming to the West End & Broadway

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31 Mar 2021, 10:00

Game of Thrones is on its way to a stage near you soon. The smash small-screen hit is in development with Broadway, the West End and Australia. The Hollywood Reporter have shared the news that George R.R. Martin is working on a live stage production of the TV favourite set during a “pivotal moment in Westeros history” – The Great Tourney at Harrenhal.

Taking place just 16 years before the Game of Thrones series began, the play’s official description reads: “The play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark event that previously was shrouded in mystery.

"Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love, vengeance, madness, and the dangers of dealing in prophecy, in the process revealing secrets and lies that have only been hinted at until now.”

George R.R. Martin shared: “An amazing team has been assembled to tell the tale, starting with producers Simon Painter, Tim Lawson, and Jonathan Sanford. Their knowledge and love of my world and characters has impressed me from the very first, and their plans for this production blew me away since the first time we met.

"Dominic Cooke, our director, is a former artistic director of London’s Royal Court Theatre, who brought Shakespeare’s dramas of the War of the Roses to television, and our playwright, Duncan Macmillan, has previously adapted George Orwell and Henrik Ibsen, among others.

"Working with them (back before the pandemic, when we could actually get together) has been a treat, and I am eager for our collaboration to resume. Our dream is to bring Westeros to Broadway, to the West End, to Australia… and eventually, to a stage near you … it ought to be spectacular.”