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How ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Embraces Its Stage Frights — and Stakes Out a Spot in the Series Mythology
'First Shadow' writer and director tell Variety's Stagecraft podcast how they adapted 'Stranger Things' and worked the storyline into Season 5.
The creators of “ Stranger Things: The First Shadow” went into the project with one goal top of mind: They wanted to make theater legitimately scary. With “ Stranger Things: The First Shadow ” now in previews on Broadway, Martin (“Prima Facie”) appeared on the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety ‘s theater podcast, with Kate Trefry, who’s both a writer on the hit Netflix TV series that inspired the play and the playwright of “The First Shadow.” The idea was to find a way to deliver onstage all the thrills, chills, and emotions of an episode of “Stranger Things,” the Spielbergian, supernatural thriller now gearing up for the release of its fifth and final season. In translating “Stranger Things” to the stage, “The First Shadow” employs elaborate tech effects and illusions to tell its supernatural tale.
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