THE National Theatre production of Travelling Light visits Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.
Directed by NT artistic director Nicholas Hytner, Nicholas Wright’s new play stars Antony Sher and Being Human’s Damien Molony in a humorous tribute to Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age.
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl (Molony) is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph.
Bankrolled by Jacob (Sher), the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna (Lauren O’Neil), 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, by now a famed American film director, looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams. Box office: 0844 848 2705 or online at leedsgrandtheatre.com
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