The BFG

About the show

Gather your chiddlers to see Roald Dahl’s unforgettable story come to life this spring. This magical, mischievous and darkly comic new adaptation arrives at Chichester Festival Theatre this spring, fresh from its Christmas run at the Royal Shakespeare Company, It's a 'wondercrump of a show' (Metro); 'big, feisty and glorious' (Mail on Sunday).

One extraordinary night, a young orphan named Sophie is snatched by a giant and taken far away to Giant Country. There she learns that human-eating giants are guzzling ‘norphans’ the world over. But she soon discovers that her new friend, the BFG, is different – he’s a dream-catching, snozzcumber-munching gentle soul who refuses to eat humans.

While other giants wreak havoc on the world, the BFG ignites Sophie’s imagination, and they devise a daring plan to save children everywhere. In the end, the smallest human bean and the gentlest giant prove that a dream can change the world.

John Leader plays the BFG; his previous theatre credits include Merry Wives of Windsor and The School for Scandal for the RSC, Wuthering Heights, Peter Pan and War Horse at the National Theatre, A Monster Calls at The Old Vic and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Bridge Theatre.