High Art in High Def

Sunday, February 26th at 12:00 p.m.
Admission: $15.00 general; $10.00 Loft members
HD Digital Presentation made possible by COX COMMUNICATIONS

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE brings the best of the British stage to cinemas worldwide. The Loft is the exclusive Tucson-area venue for this thrilling series of great plays - captured live in stunning High-Definition - from London's prestigious National Theatre.

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. See this lively tribute to the early days of cinema before you watch this year's Academy Awards telecast later in the evening on Sunday, February 26th!

"FOUR STARS! ENCHANTING! 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." - THE GUARDIAN

"Nicholas Wright's new play is a theatrical valentine to the movies." - DAILY TELEGRAPH

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

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.

I know it was in the picture. I made the picture and now the cow’s getting paid and I’m not!

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.

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