Small Island

Cast and credits

Duration: 

170 minutes

Playwrite/Author/Book: 

Helen Edmundson, Andrea Levy

Director: 

Rufus Norris

Cast: 

Leah Harvey, Aisling Loftus, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Paul Bentall, Jacqueline Boatswain, Phoebe Frances Brown, Chereen Buckley, Cavan Clarke, Shiloh Coke, Trevor Laird

Music: 

Benjamin Kwasi Burrell

Small Island

Small Island
Andrea Levy’s epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson and with a company of 40, tells a story that journeys from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War until 1948, the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. Small Island, being shown here on screen, 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.

Cast and credits

Duration:
170 minutes
Playwrite/Author/Book
Helen Edmundson, Andrea Levy
Director
Rufus Norris
Cast
Leah Harvey, Aisling Loftus, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Paul Bentall, Jacqueline Boatswain, Phoebe Frances Brown, Chereen Buckley, Cavan Clarke, Shiloh Coke, Trevor Laird
Music
Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Performances
No future performances of Small Island have yet been entered