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A funny and fascinating tribute to the 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 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. How had a twenty two year old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come Nicholas Wright's play Travelling Light was premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2012. 'a love letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent evocation of the Jewish folk culture' - The Guardian 'charming and funny... inventive and amusing' - The Telegraph 'Nicholas Wright is one of my favourite dramatists... acutely fresh and sharply researched plays that nonetheless have very distinctive finger marks on them' - The Independent
A funny and fascinating tribute to the 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 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. How had a twenty two year old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come Nicholas Wright's play Travelling Light was premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2012. 'a love letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent evocation of the Jewish folk culture' - The Guardian 'charming and funny... inventive and amusing' - The Telegraph 'Nicholas Wright is one of my favourite dramatists... acutely fresh and sharply researched plays that nonetheless have very distinctive finger marks on them' - The Independent
Nicholas Wright is a leading British playwright. His plays include:
8 Hotels (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2019); an adaptation of
Patrick Hamilton's novel The Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre,
2017); an adaptation of Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (Royal &
Derngate, Northampton, 2014); Travelling Light (National Theatre,
2012); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre, 2011);
Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2011); The
Reporter (National Theatre, 2007); a version of Emile Zola's
Therese Raquin (National Theatre, 2006); an adaptation of Philip
Pullman's His Dark Materials (National Theatre, 2003-4); Vincent In
Brixton (National Theatre, 2002; winner of the Olivier Award for
Best New Play); a version of Luigi Pirandello's Naked (Almeida
Theatre, 1998); and Mrs Klein (National Theatre & West End,
1988).
His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of
British Theatre in the Twentieth Century, co-written with Richard
Eyre.
'A love-letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent
evocation of the Jewish folk culture'
*Guardian*
'Charming and funny... inventive and amusing'
*Telegraph*
'Nicholas Wright is one of my favourite dramatists... acutely fresh
and sharply researched plays that nonetheless have very distinctive
finger marks on them'
*Independent*
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