[NIGEL]
Oh, Matilda! They're saying she's going to put me in Chokey!

[MATILDA]
What . . . What's Chokey?

[NIGEL]
They say it's a cupboard in her office that she throws children into. They say she's lined it with nails, and spikes, and bits of broken glass

[BIG KIDS]
There's a place you are sent if you haven't been good

[BIG KID (Ben Thompson)]
And it's made of spikes and wood

[BIG KIDS]
And it isn't wide enough to sit

[BIG KID (Taylor Trensch)]
And even if you could

[BIG KIDS]
There are nails on the bottom

[BIG KID (Taylor Trensch)]
So you wish you'd stood!
[BIG KIDS]
When the hinges creak and the door is closed
You cannot see squat –

[BIG KID (Tamika Sonja Lawrence)]
Nor the end of your nose

[BIG KIDS]
And when you scream, you don't know if the sound came out
Or if the scream in your head even reached your mouth!
Auuurrrgh!