Travelling Light (NT Live)

Part of a National Theatre of London initiative to bring stage productions to cinemas, Travelling Light is a live recording direct from the London stage (find out more at nationaltheatre.org.uk/ntlive). Screenings are limited.

"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 a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams... 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." (Official Synopsis)