Small Island Tickets
About Small Island
'Extraordinary. A spectacular adaptation of Andrea Levy's Windrush novel.'
★★★★★ Observer
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, this 'resonant, funny and moving' (★★★★★ Mail on Sunday) play brings to life the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
'Effortlessly enjoyable and everything a show should be. It speaks to all of us, today.'
★★★★★ Metro
'A tremendous, dance through a pivotal moment in British history.'
★★★★★ Daily Telegraph
Run time
3 hours 5 mins including a 20 min interval
Venue
Categories
Age
Recommended 12+
Start date
15th March, 2022
End date
30th April, 2022
Important information
Please note: This production contains strobe-like effects. 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.
Small Island cast and creative team
By: adapted by Helen Edmundson, based on the novel by Andrea Levy
Songs by: Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Director: Rufus Norris
Cast list: Leonie Elliott, Mirren Mack, Martin Hutson, 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, Flo Wilson, Asad-Shareef Muhammad, Theo-Oliver Townsend, Nasri Thompson, Ta’lia Harvey, Hosanna-Reine Grimwade and Renee Hart
Design: Katrina Lindsay
Lighting: Paul Anderson
Costume: Katrina Lindsay
Choreography: Coral Messam
Sound: Ian Dickinson for Autograph
Venue
Olivier Theatre
Directions
Location: Fringe/Off West End
Railway station: Waterloo
Bus numbers: (Waterloo Road) 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521, RV1, X68
Night bus numbers: (Waterloo Road) 139, 176, 188, 243, 341, N1, N68, N76, N171, N343
Car park: National Theatre, Upper Ground (1min)
Directions from tube: (10mins) Follow signs for exits to the South Bank. This should lead you to an underground pedestrian passage called ‘Sutton Walk’ that emerges at the South Bank. Turn right and walk along the river Thames until you see the National Theatre.
Tickets
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