Rufus Norris’ stage production of Andrea Levy’s Small Island was hailed as a triumph on its debut in 2019. The epic story of race, friendship and betrayal set among the Windrush generation was ...

Why did we miss theatre when it was away? Small Island is why. This magnificent piece of theatre, first staged here in 2019, now returns even better than before: a story about who we are and how ...

Does adaptor Helen Edmunson successfully shift Andrea Levy's Small Island from page to stage?

The first production pictures of Andrea Levy’s Small Island at the National Theatre have been released.

Helen Edmundson ’s stage adaptation of Small Island streams June 18 as part of National Theatre at Home’s series of NT Live rebroadcasts. The play, based on Andrea Levy’s novel of the same ...

Novelist Andrea Levy's 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation, those migrants to England from the Caribbean that came first on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, and ...

Andrea Levy’s Small Island is set to return to the National Theatre alongside a transfer of Richard Hawley’s musical and a debut performance from Kristin Scott Thomas in the new season, it has ...

Since it was first published 15 years ago, the late Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island has reached (and enthralled) a substantial number of people.

The cast of Small Island at National Theatre, London. Photo: Tristram Kenton In 2009, the Guardian named Small Island one of the defining books of the decade.

This is a stirring spectacle that never loses sight of the people at its heart, and an important national story told with all the resources, heart and boundless creativity of our national theatre.

So it feels right that the flagship National Theatre should honour their lives and experiences, however belatedly. Sad to say, Levy died in February at the age of 62, before rehearsals began for this ...