The Daily Mail has reported that a play based on J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter will open in the West End within two years.
Rowling (pictured right) will not write the stage piece but will co-produce the production and collaborate with a playwright. Rowling’s seven-volume Harry Potter series began with The Philosopher’s Stone, published in 1997.
West End producer Sonia Friedman and Broadway producer Colin Callender are behind the project. The play is said to tell the "previously untold story of Harry Potter’s early years as an orphan and outcast."
Harry Potter’s theatrical adaptation will seek to "offer a unique insight into the heart and mind of the now legendary young wizard. A seemingly ordinary boy, but one for whom destiny has plans..."
