A cheat version of The Traitors to lure people with five different endings | Section

In keeping with its successful history of cloak and dagger, the stage adaptation of the play Traitors will present the audience with different versions of the story depending on the night they attend.

The Traitors: Acts of Disloyalty will take the form of a five-part drama, with weekend audiences able to determine what kind of BBC drama they are watching.

The stage production comes from Studio Lambert, the company behind the TV show, and Neal Street Productions, the company founded by Sam Mendes.

The studio boss, Stephen Lambert, said the change to the stage would be like the BBC show, which has become one of the biggest shows on British television in recent years, with the celebrity finale drawing in more than 11 million viewers.

“The show feels like theater,” Lambert said. “Clothes, burning fires, chases and murders. This suggests that there may be a way to change the drama.”

Lambert had originally envisioned a production that took the audience into a fictional version of the show, telling the story from the perspective of the production staff.

But the idea was changed in favor of a more complex interpretation of the show, which is set in 2022, which attracted the attention of Gen Z, with 81% of viewers between the ages of 16 and 24 watching TV in line on the last night of the famous show.

The new approach came from the playwright, John Finnemore, who suggested that there be five versions of the story, with different players being chased, killed and – in the end – coming out on top.

Each show will work as a stand-alone story, but those who attend multiple events will see different results. On Saturday, the audience will get to choose five versions of the play.

Finnemore said he was a little inspired after watching the show’s second series and wished Aubrey Emerson – who was loved despite being the first loyalist – had stayed longer.

“I wanted to see more of Aubrey,” she said. I wanted to see what it would be like. In this group, if you come out first in one play, you can be the main character in the second play and then you can be the second villain in the third play and so on.

Lambert says that audiences who have seen one show will have a great night at the theater, adding: “But if you come to see a second or third, obviously more, then your immersion, your investment in the characters, will only increase.”

The show opens on 11 May at the Gillian Lynne Theater in London.

Its director, Robert Hastie – who is the deputy artistic director of the National Theater – said that the play will use the same “rules” as the TV show but would not give details, adding that “we set ourselves the challenge of telling a story within the Traitors universe”.

The show continues to be one of the biggest draws on British TV. Richard E Grant, Michael Sheen and Bella Ramsey have been announced as contestants for this year’s The Celebrity Traitors, which broke viewership records with its previous version won by Alan Carr.