Tony-nominated and Olivier-award-winning play GIANT to receive worldwide cinema release
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It has been announced that Mark Rosenblatt’s critically acclaimed debut play GIANT, directed by Nicholas Hytner and designed by Bob Crowley, will receive a worldwide cinema release.
GIANT will be screened in more than 900 cinemas across 18 countries including the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and select international territories from 19 November.
On behalf of the producing team, Brian and Dayna Lee said: “GIANT has played to sold-out audiences at the Royal Court, in the West End and now on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. It is a true honor to bring Mark Rosenblatt’s extraordinary Olivier Award–winning play featuring incomparable performances by John Lithgow, Elliot Levey, Aya Cash and Rachael Stirling to cinemas around the world. There is no more urgent conversation happening today and we can’t wait for new audiences across 18 countries and 900 cinemas to join us.
Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre, David Byrne, said: “This is a landmark moment for us - the very first Royal Court Theatre production to be screened in cinemas. After such huge demand for tickets at the Royal Court, in the West End and now on Broadway, it’s great more people will get a chance to see this award-winning production of Mark Rosenblatt’s astonishing debut play.”
Filmed live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, the cinema release features the original West End cast comprised of Olivier, Tony and Golden Globe Winner John Lithgow as Roald Dahl, Olivier Award Winner Elliot Levey as Tom Maschler, Tony Award Nominee Aya Cash as Jessie Stone, Olivier Award Nominee Rachael Stirling as Felicity Dahl, Tessa Bonham Jones as Hallie and Richard Hope as Wally. The production which won three Olivier Awards - Best Actor (John Lithgow), Best Supporting Actor (Elliot Levey) and Best New Play - features lighting by Anna Watson, sound by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite, and casting by Arthur Carrington.
Mark Rosenblatt said: “When I began to write Giant, my first play, I never dreamed that it would be seen by so many - at the Royal Court, in the West End and, now, on Broadway. That the play, and this exquisite cast's stellar performances, might now be experienced by a yet wider audience around the world with a new kind of immediacy and intimacy - close-up, at a cinema - is, to me at least, giddy-makingly astounding."
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Tickets for the cinema release of GIANT go on sale on 9 July, with further info here.