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Aug 4, 2024, 5:26:04 PM8/4/24

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Twotime Tony winner John Lithgow will star as children's author Roald Dahl in Giant, a new play exploring the antisemitism that has marred the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda writer's legacy.

Written by Mark Rosenblatt, the play is one of several premires that will play London's Royal Court Theatre in 2024. The play comes on the heels of a broader cultural conversation about Dahl's work and the prejudice that was embedded in many of his most beloved stories. In 2023, hundreds of words in the author's books were either altered or omitted from future printings in order to remove countless negative references to race, skin color, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, and more.

Set in 1983 when a particularly vicious public outburst of antisemitism drew public outcry against Dahl shortly before the publication of his story The Witches, Giant will be directed by Nicholas Hytner.