Official Small Island Trailer | National Theatre Collection

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, in an adaptation by Helen Edmundson. 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.

Small Island, directed by Rufus Norris, was filmed live at the National Theatre in 2019. It is available for educational establishments to watch with the National Theatre Collection.

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