Joseph Zada stars as young Haymitch, who is selected as one of the tributes for the 50th Hunger Games, aka the Second Quarter Quell. Each district is required to send twice as many tributes to the Capitol to compete to the death.
Most YA books, especially those that debuted in the early aughts, used their heightened worlds as a vehicle for romance. Sophisticated sci-fi and fantasy came second. Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games saga changed that expectation in the 2010s. On some level, this trilogy is just like its YA contemporaries: Collins' prose is almost numbingly spartan, and her protagonists are unbearably one-note.
Yasmin Rufo and Eleanor Shearwood Johan Persson In a corner of London's Canary Wharf, better known for finance than fireballs, The Hunger Games: On Stage has bought Panem to life in a purpose-built 1,200 seat arena. The show is an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' bestselling dystopian novels, made into a film franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, in which teenagers are selected to fight to the death in a televised spectacle.
