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Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: 'there is no more urgent play in London right now'
Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant tackles Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in blistering style with a sublimely nuanced performance by John ...
Giant play, London review: Roald Dahl the charismatic racist
Roald Dahl defied the image we cherish in our minds. He was charismatic, but in a way that masqueraded his poisonous views.
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John Lithgow has admitted playing Albus Dumbledore in the 'Harry Potter' reboot series will likely be his final "major role"
The 79-year-old actor has been cast as the Hogwarts headmaster in the upcoming HBO adaptation of J.K. Rowling's magical book series and one of the reasons why he accepted the job was because he saw it ...
Multi-party politics heightens danger for muddled Labour
Runcorn by-election points to risk of fragmented voter preferences and timidity in grappling with UK public realm ...
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'Giant' review — John Lithgow gives a career-best performance in this blisteringly topical colossus of a play
Read our review of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier Award-winning drama *Giant*, now in performances at the Harold Pinter Theatre to ...
Giant: John Lithgow is mesmerising as Roald Dahl in this summer smash
Now in a West End transfer, this pithy drama – which delves into the anti-Semitism storm that engulfed Dahl in 1983 – is the ...
Funny, shocking and thought-provoking: John Lithgow's towering performance brings the big unfriendly giant who was Roald Dahl back to life in the West End
Anyone familiar with Roald Dahl 's beloved children's story The BFG will know that not all giants are Big and Friendly. Not ...
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John Lithgow on playing Roald Dahl, Dumbledore and Trump
A giant of the stage and screen, the US actor John Lithgow is a man who’s not afraid to speak his mind. He says the second coming of President Trump is “a critical moment for democracy”. It comes as ...