Giant

Giant

A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends.

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Plot

A dramatisation of a period in Roald Dahl's life during the summer of 1983, as he makes final edits to book "The Witches" before its release, after his 1983 literary review of the picture book "God Cried" about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War was deemed anti-Semitic. John Lithgow plays Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt's critically acclaimed stage play, of this Royal Court Theatre production filmed at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, directed by Nicholas Hytner.

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Cast

John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Roald Dahl

Aya Cash

Aya Cash

Jessie Stone

Tessa Bonham Jones

Tessa Bonham Jones

Hallie

Elliot Levey

Elliot Levey

Tom Maschler

Rachael Stirling

Rachael Stirling

Felicity Crosland

Richard Hope

Richard Hope

Wally Saunders

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