Royal Court Theatre, London
Sophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author
As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and experienced hands behind it. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, who runs the Bridge Theatre (by way of the National Theatre) and written by Mark Rosenblatt, a director of more than two decades, it sounds like cheating to call it a debut although it is indeed Rosenblatt’s first foray into writing for the stage.
You would not know it from a slowly brilliant first act, stupendously performed by its cast, which mixes fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the children’s writer Roald Dahl.
