Travelling Light, Cornerhouse
Price from:
£10.00
Opening Times:
09/02/2012 - 09/02/2012
Category:
Film & Cinema
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Theatre
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Travelling Light
Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter Nicholas Wright’s new play Travelling Light 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 will star as Jacob, an ebullient timber-merchant whose encouragement of a young man’s enthusiasm for cinematography leads to success far beyond their remote Eastern European village. Directed by The National Theatre’s Nicholas Hytner.
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 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.
Showing as part of National Theatre Live
This venue’s ticketing system does not currently integrate with Go See This so direct bookings are not available at this time. You can find out full details of screening times and book tickets for Travelling Light on the Cornerhouse website.