Details

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..

Cast/Performers

Antony Sher, Mark Extance, Colin Haigh, Paul Jesson, Sue Kelvin, Abigail McKern, Damien Molony, Lauren O'Neil, Karl Theobald, Alexis Zegerman, Nell McCann, Tom Peters, Alexander Semple, Jill Stanford, Darren Swift, Geoffrey Towers, Kate Webster, Jonathan Woolf

Creatives/Company

Author: Nicholas Wright
Producer: National Theatre
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Design(s): Bob Crowley, Jon Driscoll (video and projection)
Costume: Vicki Mortimer
Lighting: Bruno Poet
Music: Grant Olding
Sound: Rich Walsh