HISTORICAL FACTS: Matthew dunster - The Untold Story

The Hunger Games: On Stage review: a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle

3/5 Mia Carragher is excellent as Katniss, but sometimes this production feels closer to a circus than a play

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

The Hunger Games: On Stage review – thundering fight to the death in a dazzling dystopia

Eye-popping visuals and a strong lead performance energise Matthew Dunster’s production – but the emotion gets lost amid the action

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2025

‘A venue like this doesn’t exist elsewhere’: inside the colossal arena built for The Hunger Games

London’s Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-hat tour

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2025

‘Electrifying experience’: stage version of The Hunger Games to open in new London theatre

Conor McPherson’s adaptation of the hit YA sci-fi novels and films – which starred Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen – will begin in October, having been delayed since last year

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2025

Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2024

Lily Allen to star in new version of Hedda Gabler ‘absolutely for now’

Matthew Dunster, who directed Allen in her West End debut 2:22: A Ghost Story, will write and direct the show for Bath’s Ustinov Studio next year

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2024

The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity

Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

The Homecoming at the Young Vic review: an impeccable production of an important, deeply unpleasant play

There is a direct line to draw from the world of this play to the online toxic masculinity of today

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2023

Hunger Games: loved the film? Now it's becoming a major London stage show

The blockbuster franchise will be adapted by Olivier Award-wining playwright Conor McPherson

Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2023

The Hunger Games stage adaptation coming to the West End

Script is being written by Olivier-winning playwright Conor McPherson

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2023