This version of Roald Dahl’s BFG shows that giants can be small and pathetic ★★★★ Unlike The Witches in which Dahl was accused of having Jews in mind when he created the cabal of child-killers, Jewish ...
The story, beautifully, and, one trusts, uncontroversially, adapted by Tom Wells, will be familiar to many (but was not to me) begins in an orphanage where Sophie and Kimberley bicker about dreams and ...
The BFG may be a big, friendly giant, but the poor guy still looks a little lost on the RSC’s main stage in Stratford. There isn’t quite enough going for him in this puppet-based version of Roald Dahl ...
The BFG is directed by the RSC’s Daniel Evans with script by Tom Wells - Marc Brenner It’s 15 years since Matilda the Musical premiered at Stratford – subsequently becoming the RSC’s longest-running ...
EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has something astronomic to boast about – the first look image of The BFG, the colossal star of its stage spectacle adapted from Roald Dahl’s ...
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it it is a thrifty motto to have. After the tear-jerking success of getting Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant involved last year, Sainsbury’s has returned to its 2024 format ...
The production will run at Chichester Festival Theatre from Monday 9 March – Saturday 11 April 2026, after which it will transfer to Singapore’s Esplanade Theatre for a limited run from Wednesday 22 ...
Roald Dahl is one of those authors whose controversial views nevertheless don’t stop companies looking to adapt his work. We’ve already had two cinematic versions of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ...
Director Phil Johnston walks IndieWire through how he took Dahl's nasty book about a nasty couple and molded it into the shape of an animated film. Roald Dahl made his career writing children’s books ...
But the movie — directed and co-written by Phil Johnston, a writer on Wreck-it Ralph and Zootopia and co-director of Ralph Breaks the Internet — likely isn’t what any Dahl aficionado was expecting. It ...
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced full casting for its upcoming production of The BFG, presented in collaboration with Chichester Festival Theatre and the Roald Dahl Story Company. John ...