Or maybe kids just have a higher tolerance for Roald Dahl's sadism. Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin's musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel about a precocious five-year-old (she reads difficult books, understands grown-ups at a deep level, and has telekinetic powers a la Stephen King's Carrie) is a dark, troubling work. Matilda is a profoundly lonely child living in a cruel world and…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PM on May 8, 2019