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14 hours ago · Romola Garai is great as Stone, still and clenched as Dahl pushes and needles her, until she suddenly lets rip in a blazing speech. In contrast, Levey’s Maschler remains emollient, reluctant...
2 days ago · John Lithgow is joined by Rachael Stirling as his soon-to-be second wife Felicity, Elliot Levey as his British publisher Tom Maschler, and Romola Garai as his American publisher Jessie Stone.
5 days ago · Maschler has asked publisher Jessie Stone (Romola Garai) to visit Dahl to calm the storm and to obtain some sort of apology from Dahl. She is American and Dahl immediately suggests that she is Jewish and that her name was originally Stein.
5 days ago · The U.S. publisher’s representative, Jessie Stone (Romola Garai), who is Jewish, suggests to Dahl that “The Witches” — about a secret society of evil child-snatchers — could, in light of his...
5 days ago · "Hytner keeps the tempo brisk, although the first act ends with an impassioned speech by Jessie (superbly played by Romola Garai), which is a shade too neat and tidy." "Given what is happening in Lebanon and Gaza, the timing of this thoroughly absorbing play could hardly have been more apt.
5 days ago · John Lithgow and Romola Garai in Giant, © Manuel Harlan. John Lithgow looks a bit like Roald Dahl. When he sits in a chair, his height means he has to fold up his long limbs like a paper clip; he is almost a giant.
5 days ago · Romola Garai plays Jessie Stone, and though her character is a fiction, and a useful dramatic foil for Dahl, Garai brings her completely alive.
