SMALL ISLAND
Royal National Theatre London
Director - Rufus Norris
Set and Costume Designer - Katrina Lindsay
Projection Designer - Jon Driscoll
Lighting Designer - Paul Anderson
Composer - Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Sound Design - Ian Dickinson for Autograph
Movement Director - Coral Messam
Fight Director - Kate Waters
Music Consultant - Gary Crosby
Cast:
CJ Beckford
Paul Bentall
Jacqueline Boatswain
Phoebe Frances Brown
Chereen Buckley
Cavan Clarke
Shiloh Coke
Beatie Edney
Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
Adam Ewan
David Fielder
Amy Forrest
Leah Harvey
John Hastings
Stephanie Jacob
Sandra James-Young
CJ Johnson
Natey Jones
Trevor Laird
Aisling Loftus
Johann Myers
Daniel Norford
Andrew Rothney
Small Island
adapted by Helen Edmundson
based on the novel by Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, 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, England.
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 London in this timely and moving story.