Haley Fell (left) as Miss Honey and Kyla Dorn as Miss Agatha Trunchbull perform during a dress rehearsal for Paul Kane High School’s performance of Matilda at the Arden Theatre in St. Albert, on ...

Most teachers will just send students to detention, but Miss Trunchbull's form of punishment includes sending children inside a narrow cupboard with glass and nails sticking out.

When she begins school, she bands together with her fellow classmates and her kind-hearted teacher, Miss Honey, to stand up to the tyrannical principal, the Trunchbull.

We’re talking about Miss Trunchbull from Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. Superstar actor Emma Thompson portrays the infamous headmistress and villain of Crunchem Hall Primary School.

As if that wasn't enough, Matilda then returns one stormy night to sit out on the roof and use her Poltergeist-like powers to wreak all kinds of psychological warfare on poor Miss Trunchbull.

Dan Smith/Netflix In 2021, Netflix revealed that the film version of the Tony Award-winning Matilda the Musical cast Emma Thompson as Miss Agatha Trunchbull, the evil school principal. In an interview ...

The lyrics in the musical Matilda, opening July 5 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre with an all-Canadian principal cast, are a “tribute to his poems,” Minchin said in an interview in Toronto.

There’s a good chance that if you grew up in the ’90s you remember the famous scene in “Matilda” with Principal Trunchbull’s “chokey.” It’s a memorable scene in the children’s movie because it seems ...

John Ullyatt, left, stars as Miss Trunchbull in the Citadel's production of Matilda, The Musical, playing until March 17 in the Shoctor theatre. Photo by Dylan Hewlett / supplied ...

So the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's co-production (with Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Vancouver's Arts Club) of Matilda the Musical — a 2010 West End and Broadway hit — feels timely indeed.

Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Matilda is a little girl with ...