"blackboard, posing as the ghost of Magnus, accusing Trunchbull of murdering him and demanding she return his daughter's property. Trunchbull goes berserk and attacks the students, but Matilda keeps them out of harm's way with her powers, and together they force Trunchbull out of the school permanently. Miss Honey subsequently moves back into her true home. The FBI finally uncovers enough evidence to prosecute Harry and the Wormwoods prepare to flee to Guam. They stop by Miss Honey's house to pick up Matilda, but she refuses to go with them and suggests Miss Honey adopt her. In that moment, a"
"eat a colossal chocolate cake as punishment for apparently eating a piece of her own chocolate cake only to make the children rewrite the dictionary by hand and blaming Bruce FOR eating the whole cake in the first place. Miss Trunchbull is portrayed by Pam Ferris in the film and Bertie Carvel in the musical. Later, Christopher Sieber portrayed the role in the musical, replacing Carvel. Miss Trunchbull Miss Agatha Trunchbull, also known as Miss Trunchbull or simply The Trunchbull, is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (Crunchem Hall Elementary School in the 1996 film) and one of"
"at the time of its release, and on Rotten Tomatoes has a score of 90% based on reviews from 21 critics. In 1990, the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham produced a musical version, adapted by Rony Robinson with music by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, which toured the UK. It starred Annabelle Lanyon as Matilda and Jonathan Linsley as Miss Trunchbull, and had mixed reviews. A second musical version of the novel, ""Matilda the Musical"", written by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin and commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, premiered in November 2010. It opened at the Cambridge Theatre in the"
"Miss Trunchbull's tyranny, due to her particular hatred for especially young children and doubts regarding Matilda's genius intelligence), but finds herself unable to summon her psychokinesis one day. Miss Honey suggests that, after her promotion to the year six class, all of the intellect remaining unused in reception was now being exercised, so as a result Matilda had lost her gift. (However, in the movie, although Matilda ceases using her telekinetic ability quite as frequently as before but because of the more frequent use of her knowledge, she still continues to use it on occasion, whereas in the book she"
"and intelligence, but is shocked by her mother and father's lack of regard for her and careless dismissal of her intellect. Matilda is also frequently challenged by the behavior of the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull, who disciplines students through what can best be described as extreme child abuse for little misdeeds, as well as being very strong. Upon learning of how the life of Miss Honey, who happens to be Miss Trunchbull's niece, has been so negatively affected by her aunt's abuse, Matilda is inspired to put her newly discovered abilities to good use in assisting her beloved teacher in"
"role of Miss Trunchbull due to ""medical circumstances"", following a shoulder injury sustained during rehearsals. Chris Hoch, understudy for Miss Trunchbull, has been given a contract to perform the role for the duration of Bierko's absence into January. On 25 November 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that the original Matildas would be bowing out ""in the next two months"". On 11 December, it was announced that Paige Brady, Gabriella Pizzolo, Ripley Sobo and Ava Ulloa would take over the title role. Brady, Pizzolo and Ulloa were making their Broadway debuts; Sobo previously appeared in ""Once"". On 31 January 2014,"
"Bertie Carvel Robert Hugh Carvel (born 6 September 1977) is an English stage and screen actor. He has twice won the Laurence Olivier Award: for his performances as Miss Trunchbull in ""Matilda the Musical"" and Rupert Murdoch in ""Ink"". On television, he is known for playing Jonathan Strange in ""Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"" and as Simon, the cheating husband, in ""Doctor Foster."" Carvel was born in Marylebone, London, the son of a psychologist mother and John Carvel, a journalist. He was educated at University College School. He gained a first class honours degree in English at the University of"
"The first version was broadcast in 1951, the second in 1972, with Gabrielle Hamilton as Miss Matty, and the third version in 2007. The 2007 version added material from other writings by Gaskell: ""My Lady Ludlow"", ""Mr. Harrison's Confessions"" and ""The Last Generation in England"". Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins took the leading roles as Miss Matty and Miss Deborah Jenkyns, with Imelda Staunton cast as the town's gossip, Miss Pole, and Michael Gambon as Miss Matty's former admirer, Mr. Holbrook. The BBC sequel, ""Return to Cranford"", was broadcast in 2009 in the UK and 2010 in the USA. Cranford"
"it was reported that Christopher Sieber and Matt Harrington would be joining the company as Miss Trunchbull and Mr Wormwood, respectively. Harrington made his debut on 4 March. Sieber would initially join the company on 18 March but, after sustaining a hand injury during rehearsals, would have his debut in the role sometime in April. While Sieber recovered from his injury, understudy Ben Thompson played the role for a limited engagement. Sieber finally stepped into the role on 18 April. On 21 August 2014, it was reported that Tori Feinstein, Eliza Holland Madore, Brooklyn Shuck and Fina Strazza would take"
"Ryness as Miss Trunchbull, and Quinn Mattfeld and Cassie Silva as Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood. The national tour of Matilda had its first official performance on 7 June 2015 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Mia Sinclair Jenness played the title role. On 15 June 2015, the three Matildas along with Tim Minchin performed on Conan. On 29 November 2015, Jenness left the touring cast and was replaced by former Broadway Matilda Tori Feinstein on 5 December 2015. Shortly after, it was announced that three new girls would be stepping into the role of Matilda: Lily Brooks O'Briant,"
"out. The scene where Trunchbull whirls Amanda Thripp (Jacqueline Steiger) by her pigtails required a harness to support the little girl, the wires of which were threaded through the pigtails and then looped around Ferris's fingertips to give her grip. As she swung her around the centrifugal force grew too great and tore the top part of Ferris' finger, requiring 7 or 8 stitches. The Crank House, in Altadena, stood in for Miss Trunchbull's house. The exterior of Matilda's house is located on Youngwood Drive in Whittier, and the library she visits is the Pasadena Public Library on East Walnut"
"McCann originally auditioned for the role of Mrs Wormword but was spotted by director Matthew Warchus and chosen to play the iconic role of Miss Honey, Matilda’s kind school teacher. The production, produced by Louise Withers in conjunction with the RSC, had preview performances from 28 July 2015 before opening at the Sydney Lyric theatre on 20 August 2015. Alongside McCann, the adult principle cast included Marika Aubrey and Daniel Frederiksen as Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, and James Millar as Miss Trunchbull. The Sydney season ended on Sunday 29 February 2016 before transferring to Melbourne's Princess Theatre from the 13"
"27, 2018, Netflix was revealed to be adapting ""Matilda"" as an animated series, which will be part of an ""animated event series"", along with series based on other Roald Dahl books like ""The BFG"", ""The Twits"", and ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". One of Miss Trunchbull's punishments is to force an overweight child, Bruce Bogtrotter, to eat an enormous chocolate cake, which makes him so full that he cannot move. He had been found guilty of stealing cake from the kitchen. In ""Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes"" one of the recipes is based on that cake; whereas Bruce is a more"
"chalk to the blackboard while Miss Trunchbull is visiting the room and tormenting the students, posing as the spirit of Magnus and threatening to punish Miss Trunchbull by name if she doesn't leave her inheritance to his daughter. Horrified, she completely vanishes from existence following the events of Matilda's practical joke, leaving her house and worldly possessions to her niece, without any information established relating to her current whereabouts. After the position of headmaster is overtaken by a different teacher, Matilda is relocated to the year six classroom (which was one of the many preventions standing in her way during"
"appear alongside her as the character 'Mr Stringer'. The Rutherford films are frequently repeated on television in Germany, and in that country Miss Marple is generally identified with Rutherford's quirky portrayal. In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in ""The Mirror Crack'd"" (EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton), based on Christie's 1962 novel. The film featured an all-star cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, and Kim Novak. Edward Fox appeared as Inspector Craddock, who did Miss Marple's legwork. Lansbury's Marple was a crisp, intelligent woman who moved stiffly and spoke in clipped tones. Unlike most incarnations"
"drama ""Coalition"" and in September appeared as the unfaithful husband of Suranne Jones's title character in the BBC One thriller series ""Doctor Foster"". The second series of ""Doctor Foster"" started filming in September 2016 and started broadcast in September 2017. Bertie Carvel Robert Hugh Carvel (born 6 September 1977) is an English stage and screen actor. He has twice won the Laurence Olivier Award: for his performances as Miss Trunchbull in ""Matilda the Musical"" and Rupert Murdoch in ""Ink"". On television, he is known for playing Jonathan Strange in ""Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"" and as Simon, the cheating husband,"
"as handyman for an iconoclastic, bohemian art teacher, Anna Trumbull, a former member of the ""upper crust"" who has lost both her fortune and her regard for the ideals of her upbringing. Sensing a kindred spirit in Charlie, she tries to stretch his mind by teaching him painting and sculpture - and exposing him to ""radical"" ideas about life and love that, in time, persuade Charlie to reject the notion of going back to school. The result is a family crisis and, more specifically, a showdown between Anna and Charlie's conservative mother, a clash of philosophies that raises as many"
"in Tulsa, OK. Sydney: In July 2013, Minchin said that an Australian production is planned for 2015. The production, produced by Louise Withers, had preview performances from 28 July before opening at the Sydney Lyric theatre on 20 August 2015. The ticketing release date (October 2014) was announced at Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay, with Minchin, International Executive Producer André Ptaszynski, NSW Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner and Sydney press in attendance. The cast included Marika Aubrey and Daniel Frederiksen as Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, Elise McCann as Miss Honey and James Millar as Miss Trunchbull. Sasha Rose (12), Georgia Taplin"
"The names of the characters also suggest historical Britain. Both Edward's name and Fitzgibbon's refer to Edward Gibbon, the famous British historian and author of ""The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"", while Turnbull is suggestive of, among others, the famous early British actor John Turnbull and, more generally, the Bulldog, which is popularly used to represent England and its defiance in war. The book was first published in 1976 by Faber and Faber Limited (). It was republished in paperback by Pan Books in 1981 () and by Gollancz's VGSF imprint in 1988 (). Richard"
"Spall in drag) tells her life story in cabaret form before an audience. ""Without Walls"" TV Series (UK) 5 October 1993. The English PEN International Centre included several readings of poems by Rutherford on a list entitled Library of Recordings.pdf (1953). The works listed were: Margaret Rutherford Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple. She first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's ""Blithe Spirit"", and"
"the horns of the ""Charging Bull"". Ma Gnucci reappears nine years after her death, claiming to have escaped from Hell with the intention of uniting all of the New York crime families against the Punisher. In actuality, Ma's ""resurrection"" is a hoax orchestrated by the new Elite who believes he can demoralize the Punisher by paying surgically altered quadriplegics to pose as Ma Gnucci. When his plans fall apart, the Elite has all of the Ma doubles executed. Elite and his associates are then killed by the Punisher. Ma Gnucci Ma Gnucci (Isabella Gnucci) is a fictional character, a supervillain"
"2012, Steve Furst and Haley Flaherty took over the roles of Mr. Wormwood and Miss Honey from Kaye and Ward. Two of the original London Matildas (Ingram and Kiely) were replaced by Jade Marner and Isobelle Molloy (Molloy originally played Amanda in the original London cast before being cast as Matilda), though Ellie Glynn, who had reprised her Stratford role from December, stayed. Bertie Carvel left in July 2012 and the role of Miss Trunchbull was filled by David Leonard, although he did not start until the main cast change in August because of injury. At this cast change four"
"It also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from ""Murder, She Said"", which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel """". The show revolves around the day-to-day life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless, widowed, retired English teacher who becomes a successful mystery writer. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a small coastal community in Maine, and maintains her links with all of her old friends, never letting her success go to"
"this performance. Matilda again performed at West End Live. Lily-Mae performed on 16 June 2018, and Sara performed on 17 June 2018. Both girls sang ""Naughty"". On 13 August 2018, a new cast change was announced. Isobel Hubble and Francesca McKeown will join Munday and Wells as Matilda. Other new cast members include Hayden Tee as Miss Trunchbull, and Rob Compton and Holly Dale Spencer as Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood. On 29 February 2012, the RSC announced the show would transfer to Broadway in spring 2013; it would still be set in England despite initial pressure for the show to"
"series of popular Miss Marple films in the 1960s starring Margaret Rutherford. Hamilton said Rutherford ""was a divine clown but she was no more Miss Marple than... fly to the moon. We are doing Miss Christie's Miss Marple, a more serious person, a gossip, a bit of a snob. And she doesn't fall off her bicycle into the village duckpond."" Lansbury said she played the part of Marple ""absolutely straight. I'm trying to get at the woman Agatha Christie created: an Edwardian maiden lady imbued with great humanity and a mind of tremendous breadth. She's very exactly described in the"
"starring Lily Dampier as Catchpole. This play formed the basis of the 1912 film ""The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole"" which starred Lottie Lyell in the title role. Cobbold's book was also adapted into a libretto by Ronald Fletcher which was set to music as the opera ""Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart"" by British composer Stephen Dodgson in 1979. Margaret Catchpole Margaret Catchpole (14 March 1762 – 13 May 1819) was an English adventuress, chronicler and criminal. Born in Suffolk, she worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse and later escaping from Ipswich"
"Margaret Rutherford Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple. She first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's ""Blithe Spirit"", and Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for her role as The Duchess of Brighton in ""The V.I.P.s"" (1963). Rutherford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame"
"book, with Jane Seymour in the title role. For the TV movie, however, Jenny Cockell was referred to as ""Jenny Cole,"" and the story was somewhat rewritten with, amongst other changes, Jenny Cole being an American rather than a British citizen. Cockell is also the author of ""Past Lives, Future Lives"", in which she discussed her visions of what she believes could be her future lives obtained initially by precognition then added to by experimental ""progression hypnosis"" (future version of past life regression), among these a girl, Nadia in Nepal around 2050 who was glimpsed in ""Across Time And Death"""
"New York City. In 2013, Taylor appeared as herself in the documentary ""Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th"". Jeannine Taylor Jeannine Alice Taylor (born June 2, 1954) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is best known for her role as Marcie Cunningham in Sean S. Cunningham's 1980 horror film ""Friday the 13th"". From 1980 to 1981, Taylor portrayed the lead, Madame Trentoni / Aurelia Johnson, in Robert Kalfin's Off-Broadway production ""Hijinks!"" and has had roles in several stage productions including Jenny in ""The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"" (1979) and Henrietta in ""Robert and Elizabeth"""
"were changed to suit American audiences and more scenes used the orchestra pit/front stalls area of the theatre. The Broadway production also introduced an overture and pre-show curtain, as of June 2013. On 1 September 2013, Carvel and Ward played their final performances, Jill Paice joined the cast as Miss Honey and played her first performance on 3 September. Craig Bierko took over as Miss Trunchbull on 17 September, after recovering from an injury. In October 2013, ""Matilda"" broke the box office record for the Shubert Theatre. On 19 November, it was announced that Bierko will not return to the"
"noting that ""I realised that it's not a show of today. It's a period piece."" Working prolifically in cinema, in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in ""The Lady Vanishes"", a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1938 film. The following year she appeared in ""The Mirror Crack'd"", another film based on an Agatha Christie novel, this time as Miss Marple, a sleuth in 1950s Kent. Lansbury hoped to get away from the depiction of the role made famous by Margaret Rutherford, instead returning to Christie's description of the character; in this she created a precursor to her later role of"
"Mrs. Santa Claus Mrs. Santa Claus is a 1996 American made-for-television musical fantasy-comedy film starring Angela Lansbury in the title role as Mrs. Claus, the wife of Santa Claus. The film was billed as the first original musical written for television since ""Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella"" in 1957. It was originally broadcast as a Hallmark Entertainment presentation on CBS on December 8, 1996. The movie is set in December 1910. Mrs. Santa Claus is trying to convince her husband, Santa Claus, to take a new route, but he is preoccupied with the Christmas rush and won't listen. Disgruntled, she takes"
"Adaptations of Agatha Christie Adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie: Episodes of the television series ""Miss Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" include: Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years. However the most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories: Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby,"