Andrea Levy's Small Island novel to be staged next year

National Theatre director says Windrush scandal and Brexit makes the production timely

Andrea Levy’s celebrated novel Small Island is to be staged next year by the National Theatre, a production doubly prescient said director Rufus Norris because of the Windrush scandal and Brexit.

The May 2019 production was announced by Norris on Wednesday along with plays which include one about the American comedian Richard Pryor, written and starring Lenny Henry; a new production of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls directed by Lyndsey Turner; and a 21st century updating of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, titled Peter Gynt, by David Hare.

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