Based on the wildly popular book and movie series that began with “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, a new stage show will open this fall in London's Canary Wharf in a purpose-built 1,200-seat theatre. The in-the-round venue is designed to evoke an arena, as combatants from the 12 districts participate in an acrobatic, and sometimes airborne, fight for survival.
The new building has three floors with an outside terrace, two bars and large restaurant, and the theatre space is designed to be flexible enough to accommodate different types of entertainments including immersive experiences and interactive shows once The Hunger Games has run its course.
Below are the creatives tapped to bring Panem, the fictional post-nuclear authoritarian state, to life.
Lighting Designer: Lucy Carter
Lucy Carter is a two-time winner of the Knight of Illumination Award for Dance in 2008 for Chroma and 2015 for Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet).
Opera lighting includes: Festen, Hansel and Gretel, Alcina, Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire (RBO), The Turn of the Screw (Royal Danish Opera), Le nozze di Figaro (Paris Opera); Kát’a Kabanová (Rome, RBO), The Cunning Little Vixen, Orphée, Salomé, The Dream of Gerontius (English National Opera), Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera), La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne Festival, La Scala, Milan), Peter Grimes (Aldeburgh).
Theatre includes: The Little Foxes (Young Vic), City of Floating Sounds (Factory International), Shirley Valentine, 2:22 and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End), Home I’m Darling, Husbands and Sons, Medea and Emil and the Detectives (NT), Persuasion (Rose Theatre, Kingston).
Dance productions with Wayne McGregor include: DYAD 1929, Deepstaria, INFRA, Woolf Works, MADDADDAM, The Dante Project, McGregor + Mugler, Multiverse, Chroma and Autobiography.
Sound Designer: Ian Dickinson for Autograph
Ian is an award-winning sound designer with extensive credits in the UK and internationally. Recent work has included:
Ballet Shoes (National Theatre), Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Fear of 13 (Donmar), Boys On The Verge of Tears (Soho), Alma Mater (Almeida), The Witches (National Theatre), 42nd Street ( Leicester and UK tour) 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End, Los Angeles & UK tours), The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (UK Tour & Duke of York’s), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare North Playhouse), COCK (Ambassador’s), Jerusalem (Apollo, London), Company (Broadway and West End), Hangmen (Broadway and West End), Uncle Vanya (Pinter Theatre, London), Translations, Small Island, Angels in America (also Broadway).
Ian was the recipient of both an Olivier and Drama Desk Award for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time, which played at the National Theatre and toured venues worldwide. He has also received Olivier and Tony nominations for his work in London and on Broadway, most notably for Company, Angels In America, Rock & Roll, Jerusalem and 2:22.
Set Designer: Miriam Buether
Buether received the 2023 Olivier Award for Best Set Design and the Critic’s Circle Award for Stranger Things: The First Shadow. She is also three times Tony Award nominated for Prima Facie, Three Tall Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, two times winner of the Evening Standard Award for The Jungle, Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and winner of the Critics Circle Award for Wild Swans.
Costume Designer: Moi Tran
Moi trained at the Motley School of Design, Winchester School of Art, she holds a Masters in Fine Art from The Chelsea College of Art. Moi lectures at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Video Designer: Tal Rosner
Tal Rosner is a BAFTA-winning video artist whose recent projects include The Brothers Lionheart at the Royal Danish Playhouse, Die Walküre in Bordeaux, and the DIVA exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Kunsthal Rotterdam. His work fuses digital abstraction with music, elevating live performances through his distinctive approach to innovative and collaborative stagecraft.
In the 2024–25 season, Rosner’s video for Ainadamar will be presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and LA Opera, alongside Mythos at Staatsoper Hannover, San Francisco Opera’s Pride Concert, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Southbank Centre.
He has also designed video for major international events, including the XXII Commonwealth Games, and has collaborated with leading institutions such as the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, and international tours for the Pet Shop Boys and the Rolling Stones.
Illusions: Chris Fisher
Chris Fisher works worldwide as International Illusions and Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. His work in theatre as illusion designer includes Stranger Things: The First Shadow(Phoenix Theatre); Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward Theatre), Ballet Shoes (National Theatre), Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse); Back to The Future: The Musical (Broadway & Adelphi Theatre, London); The Ghost and the Lady (Tokyo); The Witches (National Theatre); Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse & UK tour); The Time Travellers Wife (Apollo Theatre); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (UK tour/West End); 2.22 A Ghost Story (various cities); Big the Musical (Dominion Theatre); Peter Gynt, Here We Go, Treasure Island, Julie and Angels in America (also on Broadway) at the National Theatre; Wicked Das Musical, Hamburg; Company (Gielgud Theatre and New York); Merlin for Northern Ballet.
He is a member of The Magic Circle.
Fight Director: Kev McCurdy
Kev is an Equity Registered Fight Director. He is also the Fight Instructor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as well as the Co-Founder, a Fight Examiner and Senior Stage Combat Tutor of the Academy of Performance Combat (APC). He works in a wide range of disciplines across film, television, and theatre.
Selected Theatre credits include: Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre & UK Tour); Miss Saigon (Prince Edward, UK and European tour); O Island, Ivy Tiller: Squirrel Killer, The Tempest (RSC); Frankenstein, Hamlet, Let The Right One In (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Anthony & Cleopatra, Mosquitoes, Barbershop Chronicles, Othello (National Theatre); Eyam, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Taming Of The Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Billy Elliot (Curve); Glory (The Dukes, Lancaster & UK tour); The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (UK Tour); Sylvia, Jitney (Old Vic); Hamlet, The House of Shades (Almeida); Fairview, Mandela (Young Vic); The Wife of Willesden (Kiln); Bajazet (Irish National Opera Tour & Royal Opera House); Moreno (Theatre 503); Guardians Of The Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Red Pitch (The Bush Theatre); Marys Seacole, Trouble In Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); Sister Act (UK tour & Eventim Apollo); The Colour Purple (UK tour).
Performer Flying: Suspended Illusions
Suspended Illusions designs, builds and integrates custom magic illusions, wire flying rigs and special effects for live performance. Our systems have been toured extensively throughout Europe and North America.
- “The Hunger Games” Adapted by: Conor McPherson
- Director: Matthew Dunster
- Arranger, Musical Director & Additional Compositions: James Maloney
- Choreographer: Charlotte Broom
The Hunger Games Onstage Trailer: