Funny, shocking and thought-provoking: John Lithgow's towering performance brings the big unfriendly giant who was Roald Dahl back to life in the West End

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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Anyone familiar with Roald Dahl 's beloved children's story The BFG will know that not all giants are Big and Friendly. Not least this enormously tall, hugely imaginative, massively successful giant …

Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 09:35 UTC

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Conti plays twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of the other’s murder, in this dreamy but frustrating fable

Simon Perry’s elusive, lugubrious, faintly bizarre psychodrama from 1977, based on a nov…

Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive tale of a mysterious death

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 08:20 UTC

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Conti plays twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of the other’s murder, in this dreamy but frustrating fable

Simon Perry’s elusive, lugubrious, faintly bizarre psychodrama from 1977, based on a nov…

Olivier awards 2025: Giant, Benjamin Button and Fiddler on the Roof triumph

found 2025 › Apr › 06 (Sun) @ 22:40 UTC

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John Lithgow, Imelda Staunton, Romola Garai and Layton Williams are among the winners at the annual stage awards

Olivier awards: full list of winners

The play Giant, which portrays children’s author Ro…

Adrien Brody puts on a loved-up display with his girlfriend Georgina Chapman at the Olivier Awards as he misses out on Best Actor gong

found 2025 › Apr › 06 (Sun) @ 20:45 UTC

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The Oscar winner, 51, was up for the Best Actor gong for his role in The Fear Of 13 - but lost out to John Lithgow as author Roald Dahl.

People are only just realising how to pronounce Roald Dahl's name - and you've probably been saying it wrong your whole life

found 2025 › Apr › 02 (Wed) @ 07:40 UTC

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Roald Dahl , who wrote books such as Matilda, Charlie in The Chocolate Factory, and the Fantastic Mr Fox, was born in Landaff - a small town outside of Cardiff, Wales - to Norwegian parents.

England’s Ellie Kildunne: ‘Losing the World Cup final fuelled a fire in me’

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 11:33 UTC

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Pacy Harlequins back says the Red Roses reaching a home final next year would be ‘pinnacle of our Mount Everest’

Ellie Kildunne doesn’t really need to do any talking. Her highlights reel does it for h…

Kate McKinnon: ‘Watching Succession made me return to King Lear’

found 2024 › Dec › 14 (Sat) @ 10:51 UTC

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The SNL star and children’s author on finding inspiration in Roald Dahl, coming late to Muriel Spark, and taking comfort in Yuval Noah Harari

My earliest reading memory
I loved The Berenstain Bears …