GIANT – The Play

GIANT comes to the Taliesin Arts Centre on Tuesday 1 December, showing live on the big screen in the Event Cinema. It's the acclaimed play starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl, filmed live in London's West End before a sold-out Broadway run.

Lithgow is the big draw here, and he's got a strong supporting cast around him: Aya Cash, Elliot Levey and Rachael Stirling. He's a face you'll recognise from Killers of the Flower Moon and The Crown, and he picked up a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for this role. The play itself was a five-star hit that took home three Olivier Awards, including Best Play.

It's set in the summer of 1983, when The Witches was about to be published and Dahl was still making last-minute edits. At the same time, he was dealing with the fallout from an explicitly antisemitic article he'd written. The whole thing takes place over a single afternoon at his family home, where he's forced to choose between making a public apology or risking his name and reputation. It's handled with dark humour, weighing considered opinion against dangerous rhetoric.

It's a one-night showing, so if you want to see it, you'll need to make it work for that Tuesday. The screening starts at 7:30pm at the Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea. Tickets are £15.50 full price, with under 26s and students getting it for £5.00.