National Theatre Live - Travelling Light

How had a twenty-two year-old pretentious layabout, quite frankly, in an unknown shtetl, along with a Gentile housemaid, make a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber-merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling.

Forty years on, Motl - now the famed American film director Maurice Montgomery - looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams, both to himself and those he left behind.

Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright's new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age; and a haunting look at the stories we tell about our own lives.

The award-winning Antony Sher - last seen at the National Theatre in Primo in 2004 - returns to play Jacob.

Cast includes:
Paul Jesson
Lauren O'Neil
Antony Sher

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Set Designer: Bob Crowley
Costume Designer: Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Designer: Bruno Poet
Music: Grant Olding

Dates

Tickets £12.50
Doors open 6.00pm, starts 7.00pm
To book tickets please call Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901

Travelling Light 09/02/2012

* Tickets £12.50
Doors open 6.00pm, starts 7.00pm
To book tickets please call Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901