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Matilda The Musical UK and Ireland tour – first look photos

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Alex Wood

Alex Wood

| Tour |

14 October 2025

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Matilda The Musical – Yellow Team cast with Madison Davis as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan

Have a first look at the second UK and Ireland tour of Matilda The Musical.

Based on Roald Dahl’s book, the production began performances at Curve, Leicester, on 6 October 2025, with the new tour running concurrently with the West End production.

The musical follows a determined young girl and her imaginative approach to life. It has received over 100 awards, including 24 for Best Musical. Numbers in the show include “Quiet”, “Naughty”, “When I Grow Up” and “Revolting Children”. A film adaptation of Matilda was released in 2022 and is available on Netflix.

Madison Davis, Mollie Hutton, Olivia Ironmonger and Sanna Kurihara will share the title role of Matilda.

Richard Hurst will play Miss Trunchbull, Tessa Kadler will play Miss Honey, Adam Stafford will play Mr Wormwood and Rebecca Thornhill will play Mrs Wormwood.

They are joined by Scotty Armstrong, Sam Holden, Portia Jefferies, Caiomhe Judd, Brooke Kelly, Ryan Lay, Cassandra Lee, Samuel Leon, Jordan Maisuria-Wake, Nicole Manumbre, Lizzie Nance, Esther Niles, Jordan Ricketts, Josh Singleton, Bradley Trevethan, Ella Tweed, Ben Tyler and Karen Walker.

The other young performers forming the company are Rudy Bragg, Jacob Connor-Ashton, Charlie Cox, Sylvie Grace, Rose Jammeh, Dottie Jones, Takunda Khumalo, Sana Lennon, Oisin-Luca Pegg, Millie-May Mankowska, Tate Masuku, Leo Maurice, Carter-J Murphy, Jaxon James Nolan, Cole Nicholson, Pixie Pettigrew, Brodie Robson, Haiden Sihapanya and Felix Schmitt.

Matilda The Musical is written by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, and is directed by Matthew Warchus. The creative team includes Rob Howell (design), Peter Darling (choreography), Christopher Nightingale (orchestrations and musical supervision), Hugh Vanstone (lighting), Simon Baker (sound), and Paul Kieve (special effects and illusions).

The production is celebrating its 15th anniversary at Curve, Leicester (where it plays until 25 October), before continuing to theatres including Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre (30 October to 23 November), Liverpool Empire (2 December to 4 January 2026), Theatre Royal Plymouth (13 January to 7 February), Sunderland Empire (11 to 28 February), Edinburgh Playhouse (4 to 22 March), Manchester Palace Theatre (26 March to 25 April), Mayflower Theatre in Southampton (29 April to 17 May), before visiting Bristol Hippodrome (2 to 27 June), Birmingham Hippodrome (1 July to 2 August), Norwich Theatre Royal (6 August to 6 September), Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin (15 September to 18 October), Milton Keynes Theatre (28 October to 14 November), Theatre Royal Glasgow (18 November to 5 December), and Wales Millennium Centre (9 December to 17 January 2027).

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409214 Matilda The Musical UK Tour September 2025 Yellow Team with Madison Davis as Matilda 2025
Matilda The Musical – Yellow Team cast with Madison Davis as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan
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Sanna Kurihara as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan
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Orange Team with Sanna Kurihara as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan
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Orange Team with Sanna Kurihara as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan
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Orange Team with Sanna Kurihara as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan
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Rebecca Thornhill and Ryan Lay, © Manuel Harlan
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Sanna Kurihara as Matilda and Richard Hurst as Miss Trunchbull, © Manuel Harlan
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Tessa Kadler as Miss Honey and Orange Team with Sanna Kurihara as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan
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Orange Team with Sanna Kurihara as Matilda and Tessa Kadler as Miss Honey, © Manuel Harlan
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Orange Team with Sanna Kurihara, © Manuel Harlan
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Purple Team with Olivia Ironmonger as Matilda and Mrs Phelps, © Manuel Harlan
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Richard Hurst, © Manuel Harlan
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Tessa Kadler as Miss Honey, ©
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Richard Hurst, © Manuel Harlan
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Ben Tyler and Lizzie Nance, © Manuel Harlan
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Richard Hurst as Miss Trunchbull and Mollie Hutton as Matilda, © Manuel Harlan

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