Breaking Baz: Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’ To Become A Spectacular Stage Show With Flying Giants By Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book The BFG, which Steven Spielberg turned into a 2016 movie starring Mark Rylance, now is being adapted into a stage spectacular by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The show’s such a mammoth undertaking, as you would expect about a show featuring 10 Goliaths stomping and flying around the stage, that three arts organizations — the RSC, the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Roald Dahl Story Company — have joined forces to bring the tall tale to life.
It follows the recent success of versions of Dahl’s The Witches at the National Theatre and The Enormous Crocodile, which played at the Leeds Playhouse and the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
The BFG is being adapted from Dahl’s 1982 book by playwright Tom Wells (Jumping for Goalposts, The Kitchen Sink), a recipient of the prestigious Simon Gray Award, named after the dramatist whose plays include Butley, Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine’s Terms, most of which were directed by Harold Pinter.
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