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Small Island
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- Summary
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Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, Small Island follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and ...
Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, Small Island 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. Andrea Levy's epic, Orange Prize-winning novel bursts to new life on the Olivier stage. A company of 40 tells a story which journeys from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948--the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.
Details
- Creator
- Helen Edmundson ; based on the novel by Andrea Levy
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Levy, Andrea, 1956-2019. Small island
- Norris, Rufus, 1965- stage director
- Grech-Smith, Tony, director
- Lindsay, Katrina, designer
- Driscoll, Jon, designer
- Anderson, Paul (Lighting designer), lighting designer
- Messam, Coral, choreographer
- Waters, Kate (Fight director), choreographer
- Burrell, Benjamin Kwasi, composer
- Dickinson, Ian (Sound designer), sound designer
- Crosby, Gary (Music consultant), consultant
- Forrest, Amy, actor
- Harvey, Leah, actor
- James-Young, Sandra, actor
- Chansa, Keira, actor
- Laird, Trevor, 1957- actor
- Boatswain, Jacqueline, actor
- Crowe, Shaquahn, actor
- Beckford, C. J., actor
- Jones, Natey, actor
- Buckley, Chereen, actor
- Rothney, Andrew, actor
- Loftus, Aisling, 1990- actor
- Edney, Beatie, 1962- actor
- Jacob, Stephanie, actor
- Ewan, Adam, actor
- Clarke, Cavan, actor
- Fielder, David, actor
- Brown, Phoebe Frances, actor
- Lee, Rebecca (Actor), actor
- Eustache, Gershwyn, actor
- Bentall, Paul, 1948- actor
- Myers, Johann, actor
- Hastings, John (Actor), actor
- Johnson, C. J. (Actor), actor
- Norford, Daniel, actor
- Coke, Shiloh, actor
- Royal National Theatre (Great Britain)
- Publication
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- Unabridged
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 49 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, colour
- digital
- video file MP4
- ISBNs
- 9781350999084
- Credits
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- Amy Forrest (Mrs Ryder) ; Leah Harvey (Hortense) ; Sandra James-Young (Miss Jewel) ; Keira Chansa (Little Hortense) ; Trevor Laird (Mr Philip/GI/Kenneth) ; Jacqueline Boatswain (Miss Ma) ; Shaquahn Crowe (Little Michael) ; CJ Beckford (Michael) ; Natey Jones (Policeman/GI) ; Chereen Buckley (Woman in Hurricane) ; Andrew Rothney (Bernard) ; Aisling Loftus (Queenie) ; Beatie Edney (Aunt Dorothy/Woman with Baby) ; Stephanie Jacob (Mrs Buxton/Miss Todd/Woman in Cinema) ; Adam Ewan (Mr Buxton/Ginger/Sergeant Thwaites/Railway Worker) ; Cavan Clarke (Young Man in Sweet Shop/Kip/GI/Railway Worker) ; David Fielder (Arthur) ; Phoebe Frances Brown (Franny) ; Rebecca Lee (Franny) ; Gershwyn Eustache Jnr (Gilbert) ; Paul Bentall (Recruiting Officer One/Soames/Railway Worker/Military Policeman) ; Johann Myers (Elwood) ; John Hastings (Recruiting Officer Two/GI/Foreman) ; CJ Johnson (Usherette) ; Daniel Norford (GI) ; Shiloh Coke (Celia)
- Writer, Andrea Levy ; adapter, Helen Edmundson ; stage director, Rufus Norris ; screen director, Tony Grech-Smith ; set and costume designer, Katrina Lindsay ; projection designer, Jon Driscoll ; lighting designer, Paul Anderson ; movement director, Coral Messam ; fight director, Kate Waters ; composer and rehearsal music director, Benjamin Kwasi Burrell ; sound designer, Ian Dickinson ; music consultant, Gary Crosby
- Recorded through National Theatre Live on 30 May 2019.
- Closed-captioned in English.