James and the Giant Peach review " a soft landing in the Big Apple
Northern Stage, Newcastle Mark Calvert's charming revival robs Roald Dahl's story of its dramatic climax but makes up for it with a swinging score and plenty of New York sass If you had to pick a single image to encapsulate the scope of Roald Dahl's imagination, it might be that of an enormous peach inhabited by giant insects plunging from the sky and becoming impaled on the Empire State Building. Oddly, this is the …