National Theatre Live: Small Island

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Rufus Norris

Status Released

Release Date 2019-06-27

Storyline

Embark on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England. The play 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.