October 13, 2023 at 4:30pm
October 14, 2023 at 2:00pm & 6:00pm

October 15, 2023 at 2:00pm

Book by Dennis Kelly

Music & Lyrics by Tim Minchin

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Matilda has astonishing wit, intelligence...and special powers! She's unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, Miss Honey. However, the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, despises children and loves thinking up new punishments for those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage, cleverness, and extraordinary imagination that will lead her classmates to revolt and take back their freedom!

Age Recommended: Most enjoyed by children 6 and up.

Approximate Run Time: 90 minutes (includes 15 minute intermission)

CONTENT ADVISORY:

Language

• Matilda’s father calls her a bore and tells her that she should "shut her pie hole"

• Matilda’s mother calls her a “worm" and "little germ”

• Trunchbull has a song titled “The Smell Of Rebellion” using many insults to express her dislike of children, such as: “Thick headed twit brain,” “little bookworm,” “stupid,” “loony,” “children are maggots,” “little squits,” “little brat,” “spitball,” “foul carbuncle,” “useless,” “filthy,” “nasty,” “pre-pubescent,” “cockroach,” “vile," “repulsive,” “malicious,” “sinner,” “big fat bully,” “twit brain"

• Reference to “chopping up the umbilical cord”

• Matilda sings about sometimes needing to be naughty

• Reference to bursting a blood vessel

• References to “The Chokey”, a small cupboard in an office Trunchbull throws children into, lined with nails, spikes and broken glass.

• Reference to an acrobat giving her husband a kiss

• Matilda talks about someone breaking every bone in their body

• Miss Honey discusses the death of her father and him potentially killing himself

Themes and Situations

• Dysfunctional families

• Verbal abuse from people of authority

• Finding belonging

• Rebellion and disobedience

• Death, particularly of loved ones

Potential Scary Moments

• Many situations where characters will scream and shout

• Flashing lights and loud noises will be used multiple times

• Trunchbull grabs a character by her pigtails and throws her

• Trunchbull grabs a child by the ears and stretches them

• Trunchbull delivers many of her lines loudly is could be seen as an intimidating character

• Trunchbull forces a character to eat an entire cake.

• The death of a character's parents is never seen, but insinuated heavily and used as a large plot point

• "The Chokey," a small cupboard in an office lined with nails, spikes and broken glass where the Trunchbull throws children, is referenced and seen several times throughout the show