Royal Shakespeare Company unveils new adaptation of Roald Dahl's 'The BFG,' plus star casting of Freema Agyeman and Simon Russell Beale.

Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic director has shared his excitement at staging Roald Dahl’s “really inspirational” children’s novel The BFG as part of their upcoming programme. Daniel Evans is directing the production about the Big Friendly Giant who captures an orphan named Sophie and brings her back to his home in Giant Country.

Adding new, possibly not-intended context to the line from Macbeth where Shakespeare calls his three witches “posters of the sea and land,” The Royal Shakespeare Company is launching a new video game that reimagines the weird sisters as modern-day computer hackers, snooping around the desktop of Lady Macbeth.

Details have been announced for the RSC's Summer 2025 season and upcoming festive family show, The BFG. Learn more about the full season lineup and how to get tickets here!

The BFG tells the story of a young orphan named Sophie who befriends a giant and they embark on a mission together to stop other giants from eating children. The show is the first RSC stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl novel since Matilda the Musical in 2010.

EXCLUSIVE: Roald Dahl's beloved children's book The BFG, which Steven Spielberg turned into a 2016 movie starring Mark Rylance, now is being adapted into a stage spectacular by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it in the Royal Shakespeare Company's first ever video game. Announced on Wednesday, the British theatre company has teamed up with New York indie game studio iNK Stories ( Revolution: Black Friday) to create Lili, a thriller noir game focused on the damned spot-laden Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive video game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed in part by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The game, titled Lili, is a “screen life thriller video game” where you’ll have access to a modern-day Lady Macbeth’s personal devices, according to a press release.