London Film Festival Review: Matthew Warchus’ Opening Night Gala ‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’
’s Miss Trunchbull, the former hammer-throwing champion whose old skills come in handy when she picks up a girl by her braids and throws her over the fence, has more than a whiff of the Nazi camp commandant about her; even when she is screeching that she has a newt down her knickers, she is terrifying enough to send a satisfying shiver down the spine of the most ghoulish child in the audience.
Mrs. Phelps and the class teacher Miss Honey, played by Lashana Lynch, are the twin saving graces of the adult world: kind, empathetic, imaginative and immediately aware that Matilda is no ordinary girl. True to the spirit of Dahl, however, being kind doesn’t mean being sweeter than the cheap chocolate Dahl himself loved so much. Miss Honey is a damaged, frightened woman whose love of teaching is a refuge from a hellish life in the outside world, much as books are for Matilda.
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