Nick Mohammed has been named host of the new stage show The Traitors – Acts Of Betrayal on London‘s West End. The Ted Lasso actor, 45, was a contestant on The Celebrity Traitors, where he reached the final but lost to fellow comedian Alan Carr. The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman formally swore Mohammed in during a video filmed at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands, where the BBC show is filmed.
In the video, Winkleman says: “Nick Mohammed, you stand before me. You have been chosen to take this game to the West End. Eight shows a week, no retakes, no edits, no mercy.” She then pronounces him host and hands him a cloak.
At the end of the clip, she jokingly says: “I’m out of a job.” Written by John Finnemore and directed by Robert Hastie, The Traitors – Acts Of Betrayal is a cycle of five new plays, each playing out an entire game of The Traitors, traitors chosen, players banished and murdered, a winner crowned, in one evening. Nick Mohammed said: “At first, I didn’t want to believe that a series of fictional plays based on The Traitors could ever contain as many brilliant twists and turns as the real thing – or be quite as compelling. But John Finnemore has crafted an absolute masterpiece: a cycle of five plays that are each as funny as they are moving, and of course, deeply, deeply unpredictable!
But I will do my utmost not to disappoint. Now let the game begin…” The production also does something television cannot: it answers the question of who would have won if different players had been chosen as the Traitors. From Monday to Friday, the story begins identically but takes five different paths.
Characters banished or murdered early in one version emerge victorious in another. On Saturdays, the audience decides who will wear the cloak, and their choice determines which of the five plays unfolds that day. The stage production begins previews at the Gillian Lynne Theatre on May 11 2027, with opening night on June 8 2027.
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