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

<p>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</p><p>The sleek high rises chase each other up into the sky. “It is a bit dystopian, isn’t it?” says producer Oliver Royds as we walk through Canary Wharf. “Easy to feel like you’re in the Capitol.”</p><p>London’s finance hub will soon host the theatrical premiere of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel The Hunger Games, in which the all-powerful Capitol sends children to fight to the death for sport and retribution. Donning hefty boots and hard hats, Royds and I snake under the city through concrete corridors, emerging into daylight to enter the building site where a bespoke 1,200-seat theatre is being made.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/sep/30/the-hunger-games-on-stage-premiere-canary-wharf-london">Continue reading...</a>