A new stage play based on JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series is due to open in the West End within two years.
The play, which will be co-produced by Rowling, will tell the story of Harry Potter’s young life as an orphan, before he is adopted by the Dursley family.
Rowling will not write the play, but will collaborate with a playwright and serve as a co-producer on the show, the Daily Mailreports.
London and New York producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender are reported to be involved in the production.
Friedman is one of the producers behind current West End hit The Book of Mormon, and one of this year’s most acclaimed plays,Chimerica.
Callender oversaw Tom Hanks in Broadway play Lucky Guy this year, while his previous TV credits include The White Queen and Dancing on the Edge.
Rowling said she had been approached numerous times to adapt her blockbuster series into a stage play. But she told the Daily Mail that the vision put forward by Friedman and Callender was the strongest she had seen, Telegraph informs.
