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The Traitors is, famously, quite a popular TV show, the niche party game of Mafia blown into a gripping televised opera of trust, betrayal and raw humanity.
Unsurprisingly, The Traitors has already spawned an immersive theatre version right here in London, that allows members of the public to participate in their own short but pretty sweet miniature game of the Claudia Winkleman-hosted show.
Now there’s a Traitors… play? It’s been announced today that Traitors TV producer Studio Lambert and top West End production company Neal Street Productions will join forces for ‘a stage adaptation’ of The Traitors that’ll start its run in 2027. The show will be written by John Finnemore and directed by National Theatre deputy Robert Hastie and that’s… all we know for now.
Although the details are being kept under wraps, the show’s publicist did confirm that it is definitely a play in the conventional sense.
Finnemore as writer also offers some clues: he’s not known as a playwright but rather an acclaimed Radio 4 humorist, most famously responsible for the shows Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. So it doesn’t take a genius to assume this will probably be a somewhat jocular take on The Traitors. This does stir distant memories of Harry Hill's ill-starred X-Factor musical I Can't Sing!, which actually quite amusingly charted the journey of a wide-eyed contestant as she progressed through the singing contest. Unfortunately it wasn’t staged until people were starting to get bored of the show it was spoofing. But with series of The Traitors still wildly popular and all too sparing, it seems unlikely we’ll have moved on by the time… whatever this is finally gets staged.
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