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adapted by Helen Edmundson based on the novel by Andrea Levy
Cast in order of speaking Creative Team Mrs Ryder Amy Forrest Director Rufus Norris Hortense Leah Harvey Set & Costume Designer Katrina Lindsay Miss Jewel Sandra James-Young Lighting Designer Paul Anderson Ian Dickinson Little Hortense Keira Chansa Sound Designer Composer and Rehearsal Trevor Laird Mr Philip / GI / Kenneth Music Director Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Miss Ma Jacqueline Boatswain Projection Designer Jon Driscoll Little Michael Shaquahn Crowe Movement Director Coral Messam Michael CJ Beckford Fight Director Kate Waters Policeman / GI Natey Jones Music Consultant Gary Crosby Woman in Hurricane Chereen Buckley Broadcast Team Bernard Andrew Rothney Director for Screen Tony Grech-Smith Queenie Aisling Loftus Technical Producer Christopher C Bretnall Aunt Dorothy / Lighting Director Bernie Davis Woman with Baby Beatie Edney Sound Supervisor Conrad Fletcher Mrs Buxton / Miss Todd / Script Supervisors Amanda Church, Woman in Cinema Stephanie Jacob Annie McDougall Mr Buxton / Ginger / Sergeant Thwaites / Supernumeries Railway Worker Adam Ewan Young Man In Sweet Shop / Jamie Ankrah, Aimee Louise Bevan, Thea Day, Victoria Denard, Alma Eno, Kip / GI / Railway Worker Cavan Clarke Alvin Ikenwe, Luther King Osei, David Fielder Arthur Alice Langrish, Roberta Livingston, Franny Phoebe Frances Brown, Fatima Niemogha, Anselm Onyenani, Rebecca Lee Mary Tillett, Joseph Vaiana, Tricia Wey, Gilbert Gershwyn Eustache Jnr Christopher Williams, Joylon Young Recruiting Officer One / Music recorded by Jazz Jamaica Allstars Soames / Railway Worker / Additional music recorded Military Policeman Paul Bentall by London String Group Elwood Johann Myers Recruiting Officer Two / GI / Foreman John Hastings Please note: As part of depicting the experience of Usherette CJ Johnson Jamaican immigrants to Britain after the Second GI Daniel Norford World War, at times characters in the play use Celia Shiloh Coke language which is racially offensive.
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Andrea Levy (7 March 1956–14 February Andrea Levy wrote fi ve novels and was 2019) was born in London to Jamaican a recipient of an Arts Council Award. parents who came to Britain in 1948; her Small Island was the winner of the Orange father sailed from Jamaica to England Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Novel on HMT Empire Windrush and her mother Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year joined him soon after. Award, the Orange Best of the Best, and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. After attending writing workshops in her Her last novel, The Long Song, was mid-30s, Levy began to write the novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, that she, as a young woman, had always and won the Walter Scott Prize for wanted to read; novels that refl ect Historical Fiction. Besides novels, Levy the experiences of black Britons, which wrote short stories that have been read look at Britain and its changing populations on radio, published in newspapers and at the intimacies that bind British and anthologised. history with that of the Caribbean.
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