• The War of the Worlds is at the New Diorama theatre, London, from 8 January to 9 February.
The company were intrigued by the many myths around what had happened – how a case of fake news left further fake news in its wake.
This is a world in which the guy who used to be on The Apprentice is now the president.”
Welles was both celebrated as a genius and vilified as a prankster when his innovative dramatisation of HG Wells’s science fiction classic The War of the Worlds aired in 1938.