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  • It captures all the original's delicious nastiness, particularly in depicting Matilda's school, Crunchem Hall motto: "children are maggots", run by the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, but it also celebrates the solace of books and the transforming powers of the imagination.

    Matilda - review 2011

  • The gorgeous riot of the RSC's Matilda demonstrated that Bertie Carvel as Miss Trunchbull is an actor of limitless ingenuity.

    The best theatre of 2011: Susannah Clapp's choice 2011

  • But even so, when the tots rise up against Trunchbull it is as glorious a moment of rock'n'roll inspired self-determination as you'll ever see in the theatre.

    Matilda - review 2011

  • Nowhere is it more apparent than in Bertie Carvel's show-stopping turn as Miss Trunchbull.

    Matilda - review 2011

  • While we've never had a teacher as evil as Miss Trunchbull in Roald Dahl's brilliant book, Matilda -- the one who locked children in a tiny room with spikes on the walls -- we've certainly had our share of scary teachers.

    Holly Robinson: The First Rule Of Teaching: Do No Harm Holly Robinson 2010

  • Those who think that the West End is always dumbing down and that an intelligent musical is an oxymoron will have to stay behind for detention with the diabolical Miss Trunchbull.

    Matilda - review 2011

  • Miss Trunchbull and the Grand High Witch would step along it two decades later.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • When Klasco said it's my neighbour, I shuddered when I thought of Miss Trunchbull.

    THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GRAPES Jerine 2009

  • But how can Miss Trunchbull come in to my house without me noticing?

    THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GRAPES Jerine 2009

  • Whenever I bitch about my neighbour, there's only one neighbour in particular - Miss Trunchbull.

    MY NEIGHBOUR IS A STRUMPET WITH SAUSAGE WALLET Jerine 2009

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