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.”
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.
