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Small Island

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Genre Drama

Venue

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First Performance 24/02/2022

Closing 30/04/2022

Running Time TBC

The acclaimed, five-star production of Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel returns.

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

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

Cast

Michael - Elliot Barnes-Worrell

Woman - Chereen Buckley

Kip - Cavan Clarke

Hortense - Leonie Elliott

Mr Buxton - Adam Ewan

Arthur - David Fielder

Mrs Ryder - Amy Forrest

Soames / Officer - Andrew Frame

Bernard - Martin Hutson

Mrs Buxton / Mrs Todd - Stephanie Jacob

Miss Jewel - Sandra James-Young

Usherette - CJ Johnson

Franny - Rebecca Lee

Aunt Dorothy - Rachel LumbergQueenie - Mirren Mack

Gilbert - Leemore Marrett Jr

Celia - Alicia McKenzie

Male Ensemble - Daniel Norford

G.I. / Ensemble - Tom Page

Mr Philip - David Webber

Male Ensemble - Marcel WhiteMiss Ma / Ensemble - Flo Wilson

Creative

Director - Rufus Norris

Casting Director - Isabella Odoffin CDG

Costume - Katrina Lindsay

Lighting Designer - Paul Anderson

Movement Director - Coral Messam

Set Designer - Katrina Lindsay

Musical Director - Gary Crosby

Sound - Ian Dickinson for Autograph

Adapted By - Helen Edmundson

Associate Director - Denzel Westley-Sanderson

Staff Director - Leian John Baptiste

Projection Designer - Jon Driscoll

Associate Projection Designer - Gino Ricardo Green

Fight Director - Kate Waters

Associate Sound Designer - Jonas Roebuck

Music Consultant - Gary Crosby

Composer - Benjamin Kwasi Burrell

Dialect Coach - Hazel Holder

Casting (Children) - Verity Naughton CDG

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