Famous faces
Explore celebrated actors who've brought iconic stories to life on the National Theatre stage. From world-renowned stars to emerging talents, National Theatre at Home offers a front-row seat to breathtaking performances.
Vanya
Dive into Anton Chekhov’s timeless and dramatic play Vanya, reimagined as a one-man adaptation that provides a modern touch and breathes life into a classic story.
The story of Vanya takes place on a rural estate where family tensions and unfulfilled dreams collide. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle with the return of Sonya's father and his captivating young wife, Yelena.
Andrew Scott plays Vanya and provides a nuanced performance that draws you into the complexities of family, unrequited love, and personal disillusionment, allowing you to experience Chekhov’s world.
Angels in America
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America play is a landmark piece of theatre, and the National Theatre’s production brings it to life. This groundbreaking drama explores the intersecting lives of diverse characters during the AIDS crisis in 1980s America, grappling with themes of identity, mortality, and redemption.
The Angels in America cast, including Andrew Garfield, provide stellar performances that bring audiences closer to the raw emotion and complex themes that have made this play one of the most significant works in modern theatre.
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Vanya
Movie + 10 extras
Watch Andrew Scott's one-man play Vanya with a theatre subscription to National Theatre at Home.
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Hopes, dreams, and reg...
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The Seagull
Movie + 10 extras
Watch Emilia Clarke in the play The Seagull, with National Theatre at Home.
Emilia Clarke ( Game of Thrones ) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.
A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after t...
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Everyman
Movie + 9 extras
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Everyman is successful, popular and riding high.
When Death comes calling, he is forced to abandon his hedonistic life and embark on a frantic search to find a friend that will speak in his defence. But with Death clos...
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Under Milk Wood
Movie + 10 extras
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The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in terror of her guests. A father who can no longer access his memories. A son in search of redemption.
As they awake to boiled ...
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King Lear
Movie + 11 extras
Watch Ian McKellen on stage in Shakespeare's play King Lear with National Theatre at Home.
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, Ian McKellen is King Lear in Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.
King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his...
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Medea
Movie + 11 extras
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Heartbroken and stricken with grief, Medea plans appalling revenge on her ex-husband, Jason, to destroy everything she holds dear.
Helen McCrory plays the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, with music wr...
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Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Movie + 9 extras
Watch Angels in America the play online with National Theatre at Home.
This is part one of the part two play.
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnect lives grapple with life and death, love and sex, ...
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Blues for an Alabama Sky
Movie + 10 extras
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‘To realise our dreams, we must wake up.’
New York, 1930. Following a decade of creative explosion, the Harlem Renaissance is starting to feel the bite of the Great Depression....
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All My Sons
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America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.
But nothing lasts forever, and...
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Chewing Gum Dreams
Movie + 8 extras
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Meet Tracey Gordon. Friendship, sex, UK garage, school, teachers, periods, emergency contraception, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship.
The more she learns about the world the less she understands. Michaela Coel plays Trac...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie + 9 extras
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A Mississippi family gather at their country property to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell each other. Brick and Maggie dance around the secrets and sexual te...
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Mosquitoes
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In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos.
Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from...
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The Deep Blue Sea
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When Hester is found following attempted suicide, the story of her tempestuous affair and marriage breakdown begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion.
Playing one of the greatest fe...
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Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Movie + 11 extras
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This is part two of the part one play.
As the play continues, Part Two picks up the threads of our six New Yorkers whose relationships are in tatters and fates are rapidly intertwining.
Prior, Joe, ...
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Yerma
Movie + 13 extras
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A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.
Set in contemporary London, this radical production of Lorca’s classic tragedy builds with elemental force to a stagger...
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Henry V
Movie + 11 extras
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Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power.
Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his c...
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Constellations - Peter Capaldi & Zoë Wanamaker
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Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities
'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'
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Ian McKellen on Stage
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With stories and anecdotes from his illustrious career on stage and screen, McKellen performs extracts from his most iconic performances, including Shakespeare's King Lear and Tolkien's Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.
Directed ...
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Macbeth
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Macbeth is coming.
A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition. Once you cross the line, you...
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No Man's Land
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in this glorious revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic.
One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirs...
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Romeo & Juliet
Movie + 10 extras
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Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.
This bold film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of ...
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The Effect
Movie + 13 extras
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Watch the unmissable Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) and Taylor Russell (Bones and All) in this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics. Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac) and written by Lucy ...
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All About Eve
Movie + 10 extras
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Gillian Anderson (A Streetcar Name Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia!) lead in All About Eve.
Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beau... -
The House of Bernarda Alba
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Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?
Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the ...