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BBFC RatingNT Live: Small Island

Certificate15
Year2019
GenreTheatre
Director(s)Rufus Norris
LanguageEnglish
CountryUK
Running Time2HR 50MINS
Extra InfoRecorded Performance
SeasonStage on Screen

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play at QFT, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.

The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in this timely and moving story.

Please note Small Island will not be a live broadcast and instead will have been filmed in front of a live audience.



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