I wouldn't trade a very many good things for the experience of watching a lovely play at the National Theatre in London. The fabulous production 'Traveling Light' in the lovely Lyttelton theatre has truly been a remarkable experience.
What made the production so incredibly beautiful was the superb talent and passion of the actors. I was actually transported into a different era, the late 19th century Britain, and I so felt a part of it. I was truly in the actor's world, and laughed with them, cried with them and got just as startled with them. I would give full credit to the performance of the actors, and not to the script, for the success of this play and also in general. This perhaps is not completely true for cinema where the actor is allowed re-takes and breaks. The actors were actually far too brilliant than what the words can describe, making the play incredibly amazing!
About the play:
The play centers around a remote village in Eastern Europe, from around 1900, where 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. How had a twenty-two-year–old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?
The play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age.
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