Roald Dahl’s The Witches, in a co-production with the Roald Dahl Story Company, is coming to the National Theatre!
The Witches is a rip-roaring musical model of Roald Dahl’s timeless story, full of wit, daring and coronary heart.
Everything you realize about witches is fallacious. Forget the sharp hats and broomsticks: they’re essentially the most harmful creatures on earth. And now they’ve provide you with their most evil plan but.
The solely factor standing of their manner is Luke and his Gran. But he’s ten and he or she’s received a dodgy coronary heart. Time is brief, hazard is in all places, and so they’ve received only one probability to cease the witches from squalloping each stinking little little one in England.
One of Dahl’s most cherished tales, The Witches is an excellent mix of his trademark humour and hair-raising motion, that includes one in every of his most iconic characters, the Grand High Witch. A agency fan favorite throughout the generations, the e book has offered over 11 million copies because it was first revealed.
Cast contains three-time Olivier-nominated Katherine Kingsley (The Larkins) because the Grand High Witch and BAFTA Award-winner Daniel Rigby (One Man, Two Guvnors) as Mr Stringer, alongside Julie Armstrong, Chrissie Bhima, Zoe Birkett, Daniele Coombe, Molly-May Gardiner, Tiffany Graves, Tania Mathurin, Jacob Maynard, Laura Medforth and Ben Redfern.
Directed by Lyndsey Turner (The Crucible) with e book and lyrics by Olivier Award-winner Lucy Kirkwood (Mosquitoes) and music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominee Dave Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812). The set and costume designer is Lizzie Clachan with choreographer Stephen Mear, music supervisor Nigel Lilley, music director Cat Beveridge, lighting designer Bruno Poet, co-sound designers Alexander Caplen and Ian Dickinson, video designer Ash J Woodward, illusions by Chris Fisher and Will Houstoun, casting director Bryony Jarvis-Taylor, affiliate director Séimí Campbell, employees director Priya Patel Appleby, affiliate set designer Shankho Chaudhuri, affiliate costume designer Johanna Coe, affiliate choreographer Jo Morris, affiliate music director Natalie Pound and kids’s and assistant music director Sarah Morrison.
The Witches will play within the Olivier theatre from 7 November and is advisable for ages 8+.