Cinema screening of the filmed West End production of GIANT, with John Lithgow as Roald Dahl.
The Odyssey Cinema is screening GIANT on Sunday 13 December at 18:30, a filmed West End production starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. It's a cinema screening of the stage play, which ran in London's West End before its Broadway run, and it's one of two dates the cinema is showing it, the other being Thursday 19 November at 19:00.
Lithgow, who you'll recognise from Killers of the Flower Moon and The Crown, takes the lead as Dahl, a role that won him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He's joined on stage by Aya Cash, Elliot Levey and Rachael Stirling. The production itself took home three Olivier Awards, including Best Play, so it's a heavy-hitting cast and a highly decorated show brought to the big screen.
The play is set in the summer of 1983, just as Dahl's new book The Witches was about to be published. It finds the author rocked by the outcry over an explicitly antisemitic article he wrote, and the whole thing unfolds across a single afternoon at his family home. From there, he has to choose between making a public apology or risking his name and reputation. It's a story drawn from real events, played for dark humour, and it looks at the gap between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric.
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If you're not familiar with the venue, The Odyssey Cinema is an independent single-screen Art Deco cinema on London Road, and it programmes new releases, classics and event cinema alongside special screenings. GIANT is one of those event screenings, and it's playing on Sunday 13 December at 18:30, with the other date on Thursday 19 November at 19:00.
