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Small Island

Small Island

Play

Associate Director

February 2022- April 2022

National Theatre

★★★★★ ‘Resonant, funny and moving’ - Mail on Sunday

About this show

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.

Small Island follows their lives through the Second World War until the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, where hopes for the future soon meet the stubborn reality of post-war Britain.

Adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Rufus Norris, the play brings to life the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.

Small Island follows their lives through the Second World War until the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, where hopes for the future soon meet the stubborn reality of post-war Britain.

Adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Rufus Norris, the play brings to life the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

CREATIVE TEAM

Adapted by Helen Edmundson from Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel

Director -  Rufus Norris

Set and costume design - Katrina Lindsay,

Projection design by Jon Driscoll and associate projection designer Gino Ricardo Green,

Lighting design - Paul Anderson,

Composer and rehearsal music direction - Benjamin Kwasi Burrell,

Sound design -  Ian Dickinson for Autograph

Sound associate - Jonas Roebuck,

Movement direction - Coral Messam 

Fight direction - Kate Waters.

Associate Director - Denzel Wesley-Sanderson

Casting -  Isabella Odoffin CDG.

Straff Director - Leian John-Baptiste

cast

Leonie Elliott, Martin Hutson, Mirren Mack, Leemore Marrett Jr,  Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Chereen Buckley, Cavan Clarke, Adam Ewan, David Fielder, Amy Forrest, Andrew Frame, Stephanie Jacob, Sandra James-Young, CJ Johnson, Rebecca Lee, Rachel Lumberg, Alicia McKenzie, Daniel Norford, Tom Page, David Webber, Marcel White, and Flo Wilson.
Young Perfromers
Asad-Shareef Muhammad, Theo-Oliver Townsend, Nasri Thompson, Ta’lia Harvey, Hosanna-Reine Grimwade and Renee Hart

‘Resonant, funny and moving’

‘Resonant, funny and moving’

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