Matilda the Musical, winner of seven Olivier Awards and five Tony Awards, will tour to 13 cities across China from June 2019 to January 2020.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

"Matilda is quite a genius. She reads Dostoevsky and Dickens at age 5, but her parents don't care about her and her head teacher is a bully, " says Andre Ptaszynski, the British producer at a press conference in British embassy in Beijing on Nov 21.

Ptaszynski says Matilda's success against all of the bad influence around her can be an inspiration to audiences.

Yang Jiamin, CEO of Sevenages, says the company will also work on making a Chinese version of Matilda, marking the second time the English-sung musical has been translated into a foreign language.