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NEWS: More details announced for National Theatre’s new season as the venue opens up for daytime visitors

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Press Releases, Regional theatre, Touring by Press Releases23rd September 2021

The National Theatre has announces further details for its upcoming productions Trouble in Mind, Wuthering Heights and Small Island, as well as the return of daytime opening for visitors.

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National Theatre at Home: Saving our lockdown & pointing the way for future engagement

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Maryam Philpott29th July 2020Leave a Comment

The National Theatre really did save lockdown and made us appreciate our phenomenal creative industries, but they may also have inadvertently pointed the way for the future as surely as National Theatre Live did in 2009.

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‘A modern-day classic about an age-old problem’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman24th June 2020Leave a Comment

A terrific and epic play about the Windrush generation: Andrea Levy’s sprawling novel Small Island has been turned into a glorious staged adaptation by writer Helen Edmundson.

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NEWS: National Theatre announces five final free lockdown YouTube streams

In Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases11th June 2020

The National Theatre today announces a further five productions that will be streamed as a part of the National Theatre at Home series.

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Mind the Blog’s Favourite female performances of 2019

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Debbie Gilpin27th December 2019Leave a Comment

As with last year, there were too many brilliant performances to restrict this to one combined list – so once again I’ve split them up into male and female performances.

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‘The play is a wonderful thing’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Rachel Williams4th June 2019Leave a Comment

Small Island is an absolute joy and an overdue, no reservations at all, win for Rufus Norris at the NT. There’s nothing else to say. Well except this: you must see it, immediately.

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‘A gripping story told really well’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Rev Stan21st May 2019Leave a Comment

Small Island is an epic story straddling Jamaica and England before, during and after World War II and exploring colonialism, racism, love and identity.

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‘Pure & thoughtful pleasure’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Libby Purves19th May 2019Leave a Comment

Small Island is a terrific yarn, both romantic and tough, about history and Empire and sex and frustration, escape and hope and love and racism: about promises turned to dross and the great seas of misunderstanding that roll between people.

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‘Relevant & fulsomely entertaining’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz11th May 2019Leave a Comment

The stage version of Andrea Levy’s classic Windrush story is a fun epic that takes ages and ages to warm up.

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‘Terrifically moving’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Anne Cox9th May 2019Leave a Comment

Andrea Levy’s award-winning and sprawling epic Small Island retells an uneasy moment in Britain’s recent history through the eyes of the people involved. But what a glorious story it is.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Small Island at the National Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon7th May 2019Leave a Comment

Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Helen Edmundson’s stage adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel, Small Island.

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‘Breath-takingly powerful & inventive’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster2nd May 2019Leave a Comment

Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island comes to life most beautifully in this adaptation by Helen Edmundson at the National Theatre.

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NEWS: National Theatre announces new season including cast of 40 for stage adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Small Island

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases18th January 2019Leave a Comment

Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Leah Harvey and Aisling Loftus lead the cast of Small Island, adapted by Helen Edmundson from Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel, directed by Rufus Norris in the Olivier Theatre, as part of the National Theatre’s new season.

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NEWS: National Theatre’s new season features Andrea Levy’s Small Island, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls & Lenny Henry as Richard Pryor

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Press Releases3rd October 2018Leave a Comment

Rufus Norris has unveiled the National Theatre’s plans for 2019 and beyond. Highlights include the world premiere of Small Island adapted by Helen Edmundson from Andrea Levy’s novel, directed by Rufus Norris.

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