February 27, 2012, Monday - NT Live Filmed Presentation of Travelling Light

Time: 7:30pm

Location: McGuire Proscenium Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South

The Guthrie Theater presents an NT Live FILMED PRESENTATION of Travelling Light a new play by Nicholas Wright. This is a filmed presentation. This is not a live performance.

How had a 22-year-old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?

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.

Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher – whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley – returns to play Jacob.

NT LIVE: National Theatre Live is the groundbreaking initiative by the UK's National Theatre to provide high-definition filmed performances of its productions to theaters worldwide. This is not a live performance.