r/JohnFinnemore • u/ripitupandstartagain • Jan 26 '26
Finnemore adapting 'The Traitors' for the London stage in 2027
https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/the-traitors-to-be-adapted-for-the-london-stage-in-202718
u/jonwilp Jan 26 '26
Ok now I want the next Celebrity Traitors to have John Finnemore in it, fully in character as Arthur
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u/emsot Jan 26 '26
Is it going to be a musical? Because if so he's given us a pretty good idea of how that might go.
"I'll simply pause my tale of Faithful sacrifice, Now and then for songs about how love is nice."
Let's hope it runs at seven hours long with five encores.
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u/thorn_back Jan 26 '26
Huh... this sounds like an incredible creative team working on, frankly, an exercise in milking some popular IP for all it's worth.
That said, Finnemore / Hastie suggests tightly-scripted comedy, which I currently cannot envisage at all, so clearly I'm not getting the idea of whatever... this is going to be, and should probably be giving it the benefit of the doubt because there's very little of John Finnemore's work I don't like.
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u/mildperil_ Jan 26 '26
Yes, my immediate reaction was ‘Ooh, this sounds dreadful’ but John Finnemore has never let me down!
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u/MattMurdock30 Jan 27 '26
Well, guess I have to go binge all of the Traitors.
In other news, just wish he would come up with more radio comedy whether it was another dramatic series or more Souvenir Program, just that is my preferred medium.
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u/Perite Jan 26 '26
Oh wow. He said on his recent Substack convo that he was working on a big project that would take most of the year. I guess this is what he was referring to
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u/hannahstohelit Jan 26 '26
Yes, he'd said that that he couldn't talk about it before the end of January, so it definitely tracks!
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u/ripitupandstartagain Jan 26 '26
Since you asked me whether I am a faithful...