Matilda The Musical Performances return in London West End
May 6, 2021 Last updated:
May 6, 2021
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s West End production of
Matilda The Musical has announced that it will return to the Cambridge Theatre from 16 September 2021. Seen by more than 10 million people across more than 90 cities worldwide, this autumn marks 10 years since the multi-award-winning show opened in the West End. Matilda The Musical is now booking through to 13 February 2022. Marianne Benedict as Mrs Wormwood in the RSC’s Matilda The Musical – Sept 2019.
Catherine Mallyon, RSC Executive Director said: “
It is fantastic to see London’s West End re-opening and for our company, freelance colleagues and creative team to be back at the Cambridge Theatre, preparing for performances in the autumn. We all know how challenging the past year has been, and that makes this moment even more special and important. We will not only celebrate 10 brilliant years of Matilda The Music
Stephen Graham, Sindhu Vee, Andrea Riseborough Join Matilda Cast
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Stephen Graham (“The Irishman”), Andrea Riseborough (“Luxor”) and Sindhu Vee (“Feel Good”) have joined the cast of Netflix and Sony Pictures’ musical adaptation of the beloved children’s story “Matilda,” directed by Matthew Warchus (“Pride”).
Graham and Riseborough will play Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, while Vee will portray Mrs. Phelps. They join the previously announced cast of Alisha Weir, who plays the title role of Matilda, BAFTA and Academy Award winner Emma Thompson, playing Miss Trunchbull, and Lashana Lynch who plays Miss Honey.
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Emma Thompson has been cast as Miss Trunchbull, in the screen-adaptation of the musical Matilda.
Miss Trunchbull is the terrifying headmistress who bullied schoolgirls, occasionally swinging them around by their pigtails. The best gender to play a woman, should be a woman, an executive on the film told the Daily Mail.
Alisa Weir will play the titular role, with Matthew Warchus - who directed the Royal Shakespeare Company production and has been developing the screen adaptation - said it was a huge role for the 11-year-old, who got the part after an unforgettable audition .
Emma Thompson has signed up to play Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a super-bright schoolgirl with magical powers, in a film version of the award-winning musical Matilda.
The part has been reimagined for the screen because on stage, terrible Trunchbull, a champion hammer thrower who also enjoys swinging girls by their pigtails, was created by Bertie Carvel.
‘The best gender to play a woman, should be a woman,’ one executive on the film told me recently.
Dublin-based Alisha Weir will play the book-loving title character. Matthew Warchus, who directed the Royal Shakespeare Company production and has been developing the screen adaptation as well, said it was a ‘huge role’ for the 11-year-old, who got the part after an ‘unforgettable audition’.
The new “
Matilda” adaptation has found its star, and the supporting cast is slowly coming together. The platform confirmed that Alisha Weir will star as the title character in the project and that BAFTA and Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch have joined the cast as Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey, respectively.
Matthew Warchus, the director of the new adaptation, said in a statement, “Matilda will be an imaginative and fresh retelling of the award-winning musical, Matilda, featuring talented young newcomers, alongside established stars. I look forward to introducing this beloved and powerful story to a new generation of fans around the world.”