Giant —The Play (2025)

<div>Filmed live at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre. A world-famous children’s author under threat, a battle of wills in the wake of scandal and one chance to make amends, GIANT tells the story of Roald Dahl and the true scandal that shook his legacy.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down. Across a single afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his name and reputation.</div><div><br></div><div>Inspired by real events, GIANT explores with dark humour the difference between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric offering a complicated portrait of a fiendishly charismatic icon.</div><div><br></div><div>GIANT stars John Lithgow as author Roald Dahl; Aya Cash as US Publisher Jessie Stone; Elliot Levey as Tom Maschler, Dahl’s British Jewish Publisher;&nbsp; Rachael Stirling as Felicity Crosland, Roald Dahl’s fiancée; Tessa Bonham Jones as Hallie; and Richard Hope as Wally Saunders, Dahl’s handyman.</div><div><br></div><div>Following a sold-out West End run in London where it won 3 Olivier Awards including Best Play, the production transferred to Broadway in March where it was nominated for 4 Tony Awards, winning Lead Actor in a play for John Lithgow.</div><div><br></div>DramaPT2H16M2026-11-19GBen
John Lithgow
Elliot Levey
Aya Cash
Nicholas Hytner
Giant —The Play (2025)"Giant —The Play (2025)"

Showtimes

November 19, 7:45 pm

November 22, 1:00 pm

Pickford Film Center