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Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox

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Information

  • Musical adapted by Sam Holcroft with music by Arthur Darvill and lyrics by Darren Clark, Arthur Darvill, Sam Holcroft and Al Muriel
  • Productions:
    • 2016-2017 tour:
      • SOUTHAMPTON Nuffield Theatre – 22 November 2016 – 8 January 2017
      • LONDON Lyric Hammersmith 25 January 2017 – 19 February 2017
      • CARDIFF New Theatre- 21 February 2017 – 25 February 2017
      • DARTFORD Orchard Theatre- 28 February 2017 – 5 March 2017
      • MILTON KEYNES Theatre – 7 March 2017 – 11 March 2017
      • DUBAI DUCTAC – 17 March 2017 – 19 March 2017
      • ABU DHABI Abu Dhabi Theatre – 23 March 2017 – 23 March 2017
      • LEICESTER Curve – 3 April 2017 – 9 April 2017
      • OXFORD Playhouse- 11 April 2017 – 15 April 2017
      • COVENTRY Belgrade – 18 April 2017 – 22 April 2017
      • SHEFFIELD Lyceum Theatre- 2 May 2017 – 6 May 2017
      • CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Arts Theatre- 9 May 2017 – 13 May 2017
      • EDINBURGH King’s Theatre- 15 May 2017 – 20 May 2017
      • GLASGOW Theatre Royal – 23 May 2017 – 27 May 2017
      • BATH Theatre Royal- 30 May 2017 – 3 June 2017
      • HIGH WYCOMBE Wycombe Swan – 6 June 2017 – 10 June 2017
      • PLYMOUTH Theatre Royal Plymouth – 13 June 2017 – 17 June 2017
      • NORWICH Theatre Royal – 21 June 2017 – 24 June 2017
      • BRADFORD Alhambra Theatre – 27 June 2017 – 2 July 2017
      • SALFORD QUAYS The Lowry – 5 July 2017 – 9 July 2017

Cast/Crew

  • Cast:
    • Greg Barnett as Mr Fox
    • Richard Atwill as Rat/Bean
    • Raphael Bushay as Badger/Boggis
    • Jade Croot as Kit
    • Sandy Foster as Rabbit
    • Lillie Flynn as Mrs Fox
    • Gruffudd Glyn as Mole/Bunce
    • Kelly Jackson as Mouse/Dance Captain
    • Ensemble: Edward Hole, Tanya Shields, Patrick Burbridge, Anna Fordham, and Richie Hart
  • Crew:
    • Sam Holcroft – Adaptor/lyricist
    • Arthur Darvill – Composer/lyricist
    • Al Muriel – Lyricist
    • Darren Clark – Lyricist
    • Maria Aberg – Director
    • Tom Scutt – Designer
    • Lee Curran – Lighting Designer
    • Claire Windsor – Sound Designer
    • Ayse Tashkiran – Movement Director
    • Annelie Powell – Casting Director
    • Chloe Mashiter – Assistant Director (Laboratory Associate)
    • David Allen – Design Associate
    • Ingrid Mackinnon – Associate Movement Director
    • Amy Beadel – Casting Associate

Reviews

Roald Dahl’s Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection

Sections: Information | Fun Stuff | Covers

Information

  • First editions: Puffin, 2016
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

Fun Stuff

Covers

The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl

Sections: Information | Description | Covers | Czech, French, Slovakian, and Spanish Covers

Information

  • First edition:
    • Carlton Books, 2016.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

Description

HAVE YOU EVER wanted to know what actually happened to James Trotter’s parents when they encountered an angry escaped rhino? Or how to make the Twits’ infamous bird pie? Well now you can find out, with The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl. The book is a brilliant extension to Dahl’s wonderful stories, and gives fascinating insights into the characters and events from Roald Dahl’s writing in a humorous, exciting and downright gloriumptious way. For the very first time, the stories behind the stories are brought to life in this brand new title. Inside, Quentin Blake’s iconic illustrations are combined with previously unpublished reproductions of imagined letters, artefacts and posters, and editing notes from Dahl himself, to bring all of Roald Dahl’s characters alive. Whether you have read all of Roald Dahl’s stories, or are just beginning to enjoy them, this is a great companion book that will help you delve even deeper into Roald Dahl’s worlds.

Covers

Czech Covers – Čarokrásnické světy Roalda Dahla

French Covers – Le monde farabuleux de Roald Dahl

Slovakian Covers – Fantastický svet Roalda Dahla

Spanish Covers – Los fantastibulosos mundos de Roald Dahl

Cruelty

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Information

  • First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

Description

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

‘Cruelty has a human heart . . .’

Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We each have a streak of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer.

Among others, you’ll read the story of two young bullies and the boy they torment, the adulterous wife who uncovers her husband’s secret, the man with a painting tattooed on his back whose value he doesn’t appreciate and the butler and chef who run rings around their obnoxious employer.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Cruelty is one of four books – the rest being Lust, Deception and Madness – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

Lust

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Information

  • First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

Description

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

We fall not in love but in lust . . .

Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won’t we do to achieve our heart’s desire? In these ten tales of twisted love master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how our darkest impulses reveal who we really are.

Here you’ll read a story concerning wife swapping with a sting in its tail, hear of the aphrodisiac that drives men into a frenzy, discover the last act in a tale of jilted first love and discover the naked truth of art, among others.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Lust is one of four books – the rest being Madness, Cruelty and Deception – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

Madness

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Information

  • First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

Description

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

‘There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know’

Our greatest fear is of losing control – of our lives, but, most of all, of ourselves. In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.

Among other stories, you’ll meet the husband with a jealous fixation on the family cat, the landlady who wants her guests to stay forever, the man whose taste for pork leads him astray and the wife with a pathological fear of being late.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Madness is one of four books – the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Deception – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

Deception

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Information

  • First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

Description

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

‘The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . .’

Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear revealing? In these ten tales of deception master storyteller Roald Dahl explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about ourselves.

Here, among many others, you’ll read about how to get away with the perfect murder, the old man whose wagers end in a most disturbing payment, how revenge is sweeter when it is carried out by someone else and the card sharp so good at cheating he does something surprising with his life.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Deception is one of four books – the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Madness – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

The World of Roald Dahl Mad Libs

Sections: Information | Description | Covers

Information

  • First edition: Mad Libs, 2017
  • Written by: Hannah S. Campbell

Description

Children and adults who loved reading Roald Dahl’s classic books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach will enjoy filling in the blanks of the stories inside this book. The 21 stories included are all inspired by Dahl’s greatest books!

Covers

 

Dinner at the Twits

Sections: Information | Description | Cast and Crew

Information

  • Interactive theatrical dining experience produced by Les Enfants Terribles and ebp in association with Bompas & Parr and Creature of London
  • Productions:
    • World premiere at The Vaults, Waterloo, London, UK – September 4, 2016

Description

From timeout.com:

Tuck into a Dahl-inspired banquet of horrors at this immersive dinner party

Roald Dahl was a master of creating fantastically grotesque, squirm-inducingly foul stories. And ‘The Twits’ has a solid claim to being the nastiest of all – the book’s monstrous couple dine out on bird pie, beard pickings and worm spaghetti.

All things considered, it doesn’t sound like ideal fodder for a pricey immersive dining experience. But hi-tech jelly makers and experimental chefs Bompas & Parr are teaming up with interactive theatre specialists Les Enfants Terribles (the wizards behind last year’s ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’) to create what they’re calling ‘the worst dinner party in the world’ – and it sounds pretty special.

The adults-only event will feature a menu of gleefully grotesque treats, served up by Mr and Mrs Twit inside their windowless house. Chefs Bompas & Parr are promising that ‘squeamishness will give way to scrumptiousness’ – but if their foul creations stick in your throat, they’re serving up plenty of strong cocktails to wash it all down. Plus! Mr Twit’s Odious Ale – a beer made using yeast swabbed from Roald Dahl’s writing desk.

Cast and Crew

  • Mr. Twit: Christopher-Robert Barlow
  • Mrs. Twits: Lizzy Dive
  • Yollo: Alice Bounce
  • Booble: James Keningale
  • Rollo: Tom Moores
  • Producer: Emma Brünjes
  • Producer & Adaptor: Oliver Lansley
  • Producer: James Seager
  • Adaptor: Anthony Spargo
  • Director: Emma Earle
  • Designer: Samuel Wyer
  • Associate Director: Joe Hufton
  • Production Manager: Anthony Hollis
  • Sound Designer and Composer: Dom James
  • Lighting Designer: Ric Mountjoy
  • Hair and Makeup Designer: Megan Norris
  • Producers & Creators: Les Enfants Terribles
  • Producer & General Manager: ebp
  • Associate Producer: Creature of London
  • Culinary Directors: Bompas & Parr