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‘Giant’ Review: John Lithgow Is Incendiary in an Arresting Debut Play About Roald Dahl and Antisemitism
Nicholas Hytner directs Mark Rosenblatt's play in the West End, in a crackerjack production also starring Aya Cash.
And while it is comfortably old-fashioned in form — a naturalistic set of (increasingly fiery) discussions before, during and after lunch — the intelligence, vigor and controlled surprises with which, so to speak, new wine is poured into old bottles makes it wholly arresting. One summer’s day in 1983, with “The Witches” nearing publication, Dahl ( John Lithgow) and his ex-mistress and soon-to-be-new-wife Felicity Crosland (Rachael Stirling) are hosting lunch for his high-ranking British publisher Tom Maschler (Elliott Levey), who is going over the proofs of the new book with him. Rosenblatt craftily rebalances sympathies via perfectly plotted revelations that have nothing to do with cheaply withheld information and everything to do with truths being aired through complexities of character and properly dramatic circumstances.
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