Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Stranger Things: The First Shadow is the official stage prequel to the Netflix series, set in Hawkins in 1959. Young Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and Bob Newby are trying to navigate ordinary teenage life when the troubled Creel family arrives and a familiar darkness begins to take hold. The story expands the mythology of Stranger Things while remaining accessible to audiences who know the television series. Written by Kate Trefry from an original story by the Duffer Brothers, Jack Thorne and Trefry, the production is directed by Stephen Daldry with co-direction by Justin Martin. Large-scale illusions, movement and cinematic stagecraft create a theatrical journey into the origins of Hawkins’ supernatural threat.