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Breaking Baz: Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’ To Become A Spectacular Stage Show With Flying Giants By Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company
Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’ will become a stage spectacular with flying giants by the UK's Royal Shakespeare Company, Deadline's Baz Bamigboye writes exclusively.
EXCLUSIVE: Roald Dahl ’s beloved children’s book The BFG, which Steven Spielberg turned into a 2016 movie starring Mark Rylance, now is being adapted into a stage spectacular by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The BFG is being adapted from Dahl’s 1982 book by playwright Tom Wells ( Jumping for Goalposts, The Kitchen Sink), a recipient of the prestigious Simon Gray Award, named after the dramatist whose plays include Butley, Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine’s Terms, most of which were directed by Harold Pinter. Evans and Worton say they will need three children to take turns performing the role, as was the case in the RSC’s Olivier- and Tony Award-winning musical version of Dahl’s Matilda, which is still running in London’s West End.
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