If you’d thought that Quentin Tarantino writing a West End play was something you’d maybe made up or imagined in a weird dream, join the club.
However, after initial, vague plans were announced last year by the auteur director himself, it’s been confirmed that this is really happening. Not only that, but we’ve got some actual concrete information about it.
Steered by West End super producer Sonia Friedman – currently riding high from last year’s smash Paddington the Musical – Tarantino’s debut play will be a comedy set in 1830s Europe called The Popinjay Cavalier.
We’re promised ‘a sweeping celebration of theatre and its heightened romance, a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise, told with Tarantino’s signature style and unmistakable wit’.
On one hand that sounds borderline twee for a new work by darkly comic cinema provocateur Tarantino. On the other hand, it feels like ‘signature style and unmistakable wit’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, given there are those who would argue that in his case these things could best be characterised as ‘characters shooting each other while calling each other motherfucker’.
That really is all we know for now, beyond the fact that The Popinjay Cavalier is scheduled to debut in a TBA West End theatre in early 2027. Currently there’s no detail of casting or indeed of creatives: the odds surely are that there’s a director in place by now, and of course people want to know if it’s liable to be Tarantino himself or a hired hand: presumably directing a play he’d written would have no bearing on Tarantino’s controversial self-imposed limit of ten films only, but it’s understandable that he might not feel he’s the right guy to direct a play.
As is the way with these things, you can now sign up for a mailing list to be the first to hear more about the show: if it’s not delayed we’d expect to hear more news by the summer, if not before.
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