Booking opens in September

Chichester Festival Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Roald Dahl Story Company have announced the world premiere of The BFG, based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel, directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director and former CFT Artistic Director Daniel Evans, whose Chichester productions included Quiz, South Pacific and Our Generation.  

This magical new adaptation by Tom Wells (The Kitchen Sink, Jumpers For Goalposts), will open the Festival 2026 season at Chichester Festival Theatre, running from 16 March – 12 April 2026, following a winter season at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon from 25 November 2025 – 31 January 2026.

Tickets for The BFG at Chichester Festival Theatre will go on sale with our Winter season, which will start booking in September 2025. Sign up to our mailing list for news updates or become a member to be first in the queue for tickets.

One extraordinary night, a young orphan named Sophie is snatched by a giant and taken far away to Giant Country. There she learns that human-eating giants are guzzling ‘norphans’ the world over. But she soon discovers that her new friend, the BFG, is different – he’s a dream-catching, snozzcumber-munching gentle soul who refuses to eat humans.

While other giants terrorise the world, the BFG ignites Sophie’s imagination, and they devise a daring plan to save children everywhere. In the end, the smallest human bean and the gentlest giant prove that a dream can change the world. 

Joining Daniel and Tom on the creative team is Puppetry Designer and Director Toby Olié, Set Designer Vicki Mortimer, Costume Designer Kinnetia Isadore, Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr, Video Designer Akhila Krishnan, Illusionist Chris Fisher, Composer Oleta Haffner, Sound Designer Carolyn Downing, Movement Director Ira Mandela Siobhan and Puppetry Co-Designer Daisy Beattie.