Giant (play)

Giant
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Written byMark Rosenblatt
Directed byNicholas Hytner
Date premiered20 September 2024
Place premieredRoyal Court Theatre. London

Giant is a play by Mark Rosenblatt. It is a dramatisation of a period in Roald Dahl's life after his 1983 literary review of a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War was deemed anti-Semitic. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024 in a production starring John Lithgow as Dahl which won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play.