And now Dahl’s going somewhere else: the stage.Ĭontemporary adaptations of Dahl are commanding attention at venues in the U.S. “Dahl’s technique was to scare kids right at first, and eliminate the parents, so now it’s them and the storyteller-then you can go anywhere.”Īnd he did-from an escaped rhino devouring the title character’s parents in James and the Giant Peach, to a land of giants who eat children in The BFG, to the halls of a school where the headmistress operates a veritable torture chamber in Matilda, to a magical candy lair where greedy children almost meet their demise in tubes of sugar in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “He changed the face of children’s literature completely,” says Tim McDonald, the CEO of iTheatrics, a New York City–based organization that develops musicals for young audiences.
That’s according to Roald Dahl, the deliciously dark author who has delighted children of all ages for years with his devilishly imaginative tales. If you want to get a child’s attention, the first thing to do is get rid of Mom and Dad.
They wouldn’t be exciting if they didn’t.” -Roald Dahl, Danny, the Champion of the World “Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death.
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