National Theatre Live – Small Island screening

Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Road, London
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This event ended on Thursday 27th of June 2019
Admission
£12, £10 conc, plus booking fee
Venue Information
The Bernie Grant Arts Centre
Town Hall Approach Road, N15 4RX
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Seven Sisters 0.34 miles

Experience the play filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the screening of the play 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.

Small Island is BBFC rated 15 due to use of strong language. As part of depicting the experience of Jamaican immigrants to Britain after the Second World War, at times characters in the play use language which is racially offensive.

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