The Hunger Games: On Stage review: a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle

Director Matthew Dunster, and his team choreographing the fights, choric movement and flying, do a fine job of filling this steeply-banked, 1200-seat crucible with roiling, hectic, sometimes confusing action. I’ve never seen the height of a venue used as well as its width and depth for a play before. Designer Miriam Buether pops a series of stylish, retro-futurist sets out of the floor. But it remains a curiously uninvolving exercise in visual dazzle. It necessarily ends on a downbeat cliffhanger, leaving the door open for further adaptations from the HG series.