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National Theatre Live: Small Island

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Courtesy of Landmark Midtown Art Cinema
Thursday June 27, 2019 07:00 PM EDT
Cost: $15

From the venue:

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. 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 (Leah Harvey) yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert (Gershwyn Eustace Jr.) dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie (Aisling Loftus) 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, recorded live on stage in 2019 as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.
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