Game Of Thrones Prequel The Mad King Will Follow A Young Ned Stark And Jon Snow’s Mother

Deadline (via SFFGazette.com) has confirmed that the next Game of Thrones adaptation will take place on stage. According to the trade, author George R.R. Martin is bringing Westeros to the Royal Shakespeare Company‘s flagship Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon this summer.

Theatre veteran Dominic Cooke has been developing The Mad King for several years with award-winning playwright Duncan Macmillan (Martin has also been involved from a creative standpoint).

Set 15 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the story takes place during a jousting tournament in Harrenhal. Ned Stark, his sister Lynna, Jamie Lannister, and Robert Baratheon are described as the “main characters” by Cooke, who says they’re…