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Two hours of yakking about Israel: Giant, at the Harold Pinter Theatre, reviewed

Plus: Jez Butterworth's forgotten play

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John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in Giant JOHAN PERSSON
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 17 May 2025
issue 17 May 2025

Two hours of yakking about Israel. That’s all you get from Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Endless wittering laced with venomous bigotry. The year is 1983 and the celebrated kiddie author, Roald Dahl, has kicked up a massive stink by denouncing Israel for attacking Lebanon in late 1982. His latest scribble, The Witches, is about to be published in America but a handful of bookshops are threatening to boycott his work.

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