Travelling Light comes to Orcas Center on Thursday, Feb. 23
On Screen at Orcas Center continues with National Theatre Live’s Travelling Light on Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m.
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 stars Tony and Olivier award winner, Antony Sher.
Travelling Light imagines the birth of silent film in a remote Eastern European village at the turn of the century. Motl Mendl, who’s entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph, makes this small Jewish community his camera’s focus. 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.
“As The Artist threatens to win the first silent Best Picture Oscar since 1927, Nicholas Wright’s play offers a fairytale imagining of how it all began.” The Times
“A love letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent evocation of the Jewish folk culture that formed the basis of American cinema.” Guardian
“Nicholas Wright’s new play is a theatrical valentine to the movies.” Daily Telegraph
Tickets are $15 and $11 for students ($2 off for Orcas Center members) and may be purchased on the website or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center box office during box office hours which are Thursday, Friday and Saturday from noon- 4 pm. For more information about Orcas Center 2012 season events, please visit www.orcascenter.org.
