Giant - The Play
Book NowDir: Nicholas Hytner | UK | 2026 | Runtime TBC
Cast | John Lithgow, Aya Cash, Elliot Levey, Rachael Stirling
The critically acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated and Olivier Award-winning Giant comes to the big screen. John Lithgow (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Crown) stars as Roald Dahl in this superb production, filmed live in London’s Harold Pinter Theatre ahead of its sold-out Broadway run.
A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends… 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 following his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down. Across an afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his reputation. Inspired by real events, Giant explores with dark humour the difference between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric, offering a sophisticated, complicated portrait of a fiendishly charismatic icon.