'Chariots of Fire' being modified for stage

'Chariots of Fire'LONDON -- A stage adaptation in the Oscar-winning Olympic-designed pic "Chariots of Fire" leads the 2012 slate at London's off-West Finish Hampstead Theater.Opening just while watching London Olympics with previews beginning May 9, "Chariots of Fire" is modified within the 1981 Enigma Prods. film about two runners facing lower anti-semitism inside the 1924 Olympics. The pic won four Oscars, including best pic and original script for Colin Welland.Modified by rising U.K. scribe Mike Bartlett ("Cock," "Earthquakes employed in londonInch), it's produced by Miriam Buether, lit by Ron Fisher ("Billy Elliot") and helmed by Hampstead a.d. Edward Hall. The expansion may even feature music from Vangelis' Oscar-winning score plus additional music and plans by Jason Carr, Tony-champion for "Sunday neighborhood With George."Incorporated within the London 2012 Festival -- the finale in the Cultural Olympiad -- the theater may even host "DruidMurphy." Billed as "popular tale of Irish emigration spanning 1846-1980," this is often a cycle of three plays by Tom Murphy, "Conversations around the Homecoming," "A Whistle at nighttimeInch and "Famine," completed by Ireland's Druid theater company. Garry Hynes, Tony-winning director of "The Question Filled with Leenane," helms a company of 17 stars over the 3 game game titles.Hall's third season within the helm also sees two world preems inside the studio space. "Blue Heart Mid-day" by Nigel Gearing, can be a comedy about integrity and fame as spoken about having a Jewish songwriter together with a German celebrity beneath the shadow in the 1951 House Not-American Activities Committee. Helmed by Tamara Harvey it runs April 5-May 12. Nick Whitby's "The Complaint" can be a portrait from the lady lodging a complaint and spiraling lower in to a Kafkaesque nightmare that turns murderous. Helmed by Simon Usher, it runs May 17-June 16.The summer season features a co-production with British National Opera in the British-language preem of "Jacob Lenz" by German composer Wolfgang Rihm and Hall's all-male productions of Shakespeare's "Henry V" and "The Winter's Tale" along with his own Propellor theater company. Contact David Benedict at benedictdavid@mac.com