Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda
He wrote one play that offended Syria, and another about mass shootings. So how did David Greig get the job of making Charlie and the Chocolate Factory into a fun-filled feelgood musical?There are, says David Greig, two ways to stage Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: the Charlie Bucket way or the Willy Wonka way. Hopeful little Charlie is poor in resources but rich in imagination: his way would suit a m…