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  • The Father and the Assassin

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    Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader.

    Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi.

    This gripping play traces Godse’s life over 30 years during India’s fight for independence: from a devout follower of Gandhi, through to his radicalisat...

  • Grenfell: in the words of survivors

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    A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

    Six years on, interviews conducted with a group of survivors and bereaved reveal the impact of the multiple failures that led to a national disaster, asking: how do we stop this ever happeni...

  • The Crucible

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    Speak of the devil and he appears.

    A witch hunt is beginning in Salem.

    Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power.

    As a climate of fear spreads through the community, private vendettas fuel public accusations and soon the truth itsel...

  • Kerry Jackson

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    You can’t wait to meet her.

    El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it’s Kerry Jackson’s pride and joy.

    Wearing her working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry navigates the local characters in a bid to make the business a success – without losing her...

  • The Corn is Green

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    One person can make all the difference.

    Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined to help young local miners out of poverty by teaching them to read and write.

    Lily soon spots talent in the unruly Morgan Evans, but when she faces growing resistance from the community, she does ...

  • Othello (2022)

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    Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera ( Hamilton ), Rosy McEwen ( The Alienist ), Paul Hilton ( The Inheritance ) and Tanya Franks ( Mum ).

    She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its exp...

  • Best of Enemies

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    David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama.

    In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cun...

  • Hex
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    Hex

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    A big-hearted and colourful musical, that vividly retells the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale.

    Deep in the wood, a lonely fairy longs for someone to bless. When she is summoned to the palace to help the princess sleep, her dream turns into a nightmare and her blessing becomes a curse.

    Soon, she ...

  • Dixon and Daughters

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    Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas.

    Over a tumultuous two days a family is forced to confront not just their past but themselves. Because even if you refuse to hear the truth, the truth doesn’t go away.

    Róisín Mc...

  • The Wife of Willesden

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    A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman’s got the gift of the gab: she can rewrite mistakes into triumphs, turn pain i...

  • Phaedra
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    Phaedra

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    After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpinned her power.

    As buried lust and loneliness surge to the surface, her acti...

  • Much Ado About Nothing

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    Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.

    The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dash...

  • Blues for an Alabama Sky

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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.

    In the face of hardship and dwindling opportunity, Angel and her friends battle to keep their artistic dreams alive...

  • The Seagull

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    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 the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achi...

  • Jack Absolute Flies Again

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    From the writer of the Broadway smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors comes a hilarious new play, set in 1940s British summertime.

    After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his fearless young Hurricane squadron at RAF Fontwell. Once back on British soil, Jac...

  • Henry V
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    Henry V

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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 campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler...

  • Our Generation

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    Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.

    Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who is – or has ever been – a teenager.

    Writer Alecky Bly...

  • The Boy with Two Hearts

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    Herat, Afghanistan, 2000.

    When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking on a long and terrifying journey across Russia and through Europe, they seek final refuge in the UK.

    But, as their eld...

  • Ugly Lies the Bone

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    Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.’

    After three tours in Afghanistan, Jess finally returns to Florida. In a small town on the Space Coast, as the final shuttle is about to launch, Jess must confront her scars – and a home that may ...

  • All of Us
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    All of Us

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    Jess has a great life: a job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When austerity threatens the world she has worked hard to build, Jess makes a stand to protect those she holds most dear.

    Inspired by real life experiences of disabled people in the UK, All of Us cap...

  • The Beaux' Stratagem

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    The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Litchfield.

    Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a t...

  • The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage

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    Set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman's fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.

    Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhun...

  • Frankenstein (Benedict Cumberbatch as creature)

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    This version of Frankenstien is with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature.

    Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the i...

  • Frankenstein (Jonny Lee Miller as the creature)

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    This version of Frankenstien is with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature.

    Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the incre...

  • 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 by Sean Mathias and captured live from the West End in London, Ian M...

  • King Lear
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    King Lear

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    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 courtier –reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a torn...

  • Young Marx

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    Rory Kinnear is Marx and Oliver Chris is Engels, in this comedy directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team behind the hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors.

    1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-ye...

  • As You Like It

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    Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind.

    With her father the Duke in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden.

    There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the libe...

  • 'Master Harold'...and the boys

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    St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship.

    Hally arrives from school to hide out in his parents’ tea room. These two men have been unlikely best friends to Hally ...

  • Jane Eyre
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    Jane Eyre

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    Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane Eyre is as inspiring as ever.

    The production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. Facing obstacles, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of a bitter betrayal before taking the ultimate decision to fol...

  • A Taste of Honey

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    Lesley Sharp (Paradise) leads the cast as Helen in this gritty depiction of working-class life in post-war Britain. This production is an exhilarating portrayal of the vulnerabilities and strengths of the female spirit in a deprived and restless world.

    When her mother Helen runs off w...

  • Death of England

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    After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry.

    In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him.

    At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak.

    Rafe Spall (Hedda Gabler

  • Death of England: Delroy

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    Michael Balogun plays Delroy and delivers with 'firecracker energy’ (★★★★ Evening Standard) which explores a Black working-class man searching for truth and confronting his relationship with Great Britain.

    Written by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams and directed by Clint Dyer.

    A producti...

  • Death of England: Face to Face

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    January 2021. Britain is locked down, divided and facing some difficult truths. Old friends Michael and Delroy are dealing with issues much closer to home. Tensions are running high.

    During an explosive afternoon in Delroy’s East London flat, the pair are forced to confront their relationship ...

  • Trouble in Mind

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    In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression.

    On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by two white men.

    When Wiletta finds that her arguments to tell the truth of the s...

  • Faith, Hope & Charity

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    In a run-down community hall on the edge of town, a woman has been cooking lunch for those in need.

    A choir is starting up, run by a volunteer who’s looking for a new beginning. A mother is seeking help in her fight to keep her young daughter from being taken into care. An older man sits silent...

  • London Assurance

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    Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell-Beale take the lead in two of the greatest comic roles of the English stage, in this brilliantly funny play.

    Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior....

  • LOVE
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    LOVE

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    In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation.

    A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sudan. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal.

    You are invited to bear witness to an i...

  • Oliver Twist

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    Born into poverty and misfortune, Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse for a life of adventure where he joins Artful Dodger, Fagin and their mischievous gang of pick pockets. But the enjoyment is short-lived as he falls under the influence of the vicious Bill Sykes.

    This landmark production has ...

  • 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 Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasi...

  • Twelfth Night

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    Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

    A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unr...

  • 50 Years on Stage

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    In 2013 the National Theatre celebrated 50 years of unforgettable theatre, with extracts of iconic plays of the last five decades. Some of the greatest names in British theatre from Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott reprise classic performances and stories of the National Theatre....

  • All About Eve

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    Gillan Anderson (A Streetcar Name Desire) and Lily James (Mama 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, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next doo...

  • Peter Pan
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    Peter Pan

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    All children, except one, grow up...

    JM Barrie’s spellbindingly, classic tale Peter Pan takes flight.

    When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the...

  • The Habit of Art

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    Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, Adrian Scarborough and Frances de la Tour lead the cast in this multi-layered production.

    Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.

    During t...

  • Hedda Gabler

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    Ruth Wilson plays Hedda and Rafe Spall is Brack in a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece.

    Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free...

    Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to co...

  • Salomé
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    Salomé

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    An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution.

    Internationally acc...

  • Antony & Cleopatra

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    Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Directed by Simon Godwin. (Romeo & Juliet, Hansard).

    Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But ...

  • Paradise
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    Paradise

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    The all-female company, with Lesley Sharp as Philoctetes: once a celebrated wartime hero, now a wounded outcast on a desolate island.

    When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is faced with an even greater temp...

  • Rockets and Blue Lights

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    On the set of a new film about Victorian artist JMW Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840 Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freedom.

    Moving between London past and present, we embark on a powerfully personal voyage t...

  • This House

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    It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of a nation.

    This House is a moving and funny insight into the works of British politics written by James ...

  • Romeo & Juliet

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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 the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to mak...

  • Under Milk Wood

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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 eggs and the postman, the residents of a small Welsh village juggle old secrets and new realitie...

  • HOME
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    HOME

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    Bullet doesn’t want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy just wants to feel safe.

    Homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when the big society doesn’t work – where do you go? ...

  • Treasure Island

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    It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins.

    Patsy Ferran is Jim and Arthur Darvill is Long John S...

  • Hansard
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    Hansard

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    Its 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-spo...

  • Chewing Gum Dreams

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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 Tracey in this one-woman play that recalls the last days of ...

  • A View from the Bridge

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    In Brooklyn, Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.

    Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal. ...

  • Everyman
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    Everyman

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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 close behind, his time is running out.

    Chiwetel Ejiofor is Everyman, directed b...

  • 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 long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is l...

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Deep in the magical forest a feuding King and Queen cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors, resulting in tempestuous love triangles, contagious fogs and moonlight revels, surrounded by a roving audience following the action on foot.

    Gwendoline Christie, Oliver Chris, David M...

  • 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 female roles of modern drama, Helen McCrory features alongside Tom ...

  • Julius Caesar

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    Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate his victory. Alarmed by his popularity and growing power, a small group plot to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.

    The audience surrounds the action in this...

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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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 tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. Which version of the truth i...

  • Consent
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    Consent

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    Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.

    Nina Raine’s funny, painful and challenging play sifts the evidence from every side and puts ...

  • Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

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    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, heaven and hell.

    This multi-award-winning production o...

  • Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

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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, Belize, Louis, Harper and Roy continue their journeys through love, loss and l...

  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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    In India’s biggest slum, beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport, lives Zehrunisa and her 16-year old son Abdul whose gift for trash sorting is the source of his family’s income and ambitions to fund a new life. Their dreams are big, but fragile and just one accusation could shatter t...

  • Antigone
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    Antigone

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    The new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him and honours her brother. Creon takes action against her, risking the wrath of the gods.

    Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittak...

  • Julie
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    Julie

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    Wild and single, Julie throws a huge party in her luxurious London house which rapidly descends into a fight for her own survival.

    Vanessa Kirby plays Julie in Polly Stenham’s shocking and fiercely relevant new version of August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie.

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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 writer Lucy Kirkwood.

    For unlimited access to all our plays, new plays e...

  • The Cherry Orchard

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    Russia, 1904. Ranyevskaya and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of a local entrepreneur to save their family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives up for auction and jeopardise the future of their beloved cherry orchard.

    Zoë Wanamaker is Ranyevskaya in Andrew Upton's version of C...

  • Amadeus
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    Amadeus

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius and seized by obsessive jealousy, court composer Antonio Salieri begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.

    Peter Shaffer’s iconic play features a live orc...

  • Othello (2013)

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    Furious about being overlooked for promotion, Iago plots to take revenge against his General, Othello.

    In this acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of envy and brutal revenge, Adrian Lester plays Othello and Rory Kinnear is the duplicitous Iago

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  • Medea
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    Medea

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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 written by Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp.

    F...

  • Three Sisters

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    Nigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village.

    Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria on the brink of the Biafran Civil War in this bold adaptation by Inua Ellams.
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  • I Want My Hat Back

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    Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT! He has seen it somewhere...

    Wils Wilson directs Jon Klassen’s children’s picture book classic, I Want My Hat Back. Featuring music by Arthur Darvill and a book a...

  • Dara
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    Dara

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    1659 Mughal India. A ferocious war of succession rages between the heirs to the Muslim empire; two brothers with very different visions of its future.

    Shahid Nadeem's epic tale of the dispute that shaped modern-day India and Pakistan is directed by Nadia Fall.

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  • Yerma
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    Yerma

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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 staggering, shocking, climax. Billie Piper plays the title role.

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  • Phèdre
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    Phèdre

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    Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson, and believing her absent husband is dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare.

    Helen Mirren plays the title role in this acclaimed production of the classic Greek tragedy.

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  • Audio Description: The Father and the Assassin

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    This is the audio described version of The Father and the Assassin.

    Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader.

    Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi.

    This gripping play traces Godse’s life over 30 years duri...

  • Audio Description: Grenfell

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    This is the audio described version of Grenfell: in the words of survivors.

    A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

    Six years on, interviews conducted with a group of survivors and bereaved reveal the im...

  • Audio Description: The Crucible

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    This is the audio described version of The Crucible.

    Speak of the devil and he appears.

    Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power.

    As a climate of fear spreads through the community, private vendettas fuel ...

  • Audio Description: Kerry Jackson

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    This is the audio described version of Kerry Jackson.

    You can’t wait to meet her.

    El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it’s Kerry Jackson’s pride and joy.

    Wearing her working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry navigate...

  • Audio Description: I Want My Hat Back

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    This is the audio described version of I Want My Hat Back.

    Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT! He has seen it somewhere...

    Wils Wilson directs Jon Klassen’s children’s picture boo...

  • Audio Description: The Corn is Green

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    This is the audio described version of The Corn is Green.

    One person can make all the difference.

    Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined to help young local miners out of poverty by teaching them to read and write.

    Lily soon spots talent in the unr...

  • Audio Description: Othello (2022)

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    This is the audio described version of Othello (2022).

    Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera ( Hamilton ), Rosy McEwen ( The Alienist ), Paul Hilton ( The Inheritance ) and Tanya Franks ( Mum ).

    She’s a brig...

  • British Sign Language: Othello (2022)

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    This is the British Sign Language version of Othello (2022).

    Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera ( Hamilton ), Rosy McEwen ( The Alienist ), Paul Hilton ( The Inheritance ) and Tanya Franks ( Mum ).

    She’s a...

  • Audio Description: Best of Enemies

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    This is the audio described version of Best of Enemies.

    David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama.

    In 1968 America, as two men fight t...

  • AD: Frankenstein (with Benedict Cumberbatch)

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    This is the audio described version of Frankenstein.

    This version of Frankenstein is with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature.

    Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile un...

  • AD: Frankenstein (with Johnny Lee Miller)

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    This is the audio described version of Frankenstein.

    This version of Frankenstein is with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature.

    Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile unive...

  • Audio Description: Hex

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    This is the audio described version of Hex.

    A big-hearted and colourful musical, that vividly retells the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale.

    Deep in the wood, a lonely fairy longs for someone to bless. When she is summoned to the palace to help the princess sleep, her dre...

  • Audio Description: Dixon and Daughters

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    This is the audio described version of Dixon and Daughters.

    Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas.

    Over a tumultuous two days a family is forced to confront not just their past but themselve...

  • Audio Description: Treasure Island

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    This is the audio described version of Treasure Island.

    It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and ...

  • British Sign Language: Much Ado About Nothing

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    This is the British Sign Language version of Much Ado About Nothing.

    Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.

    The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the...

  • Audio Description: Antigone

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    This is the audio described version of Antigone.

    The new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him and honours her brother. Creon takes action against ...

  • Audio Description: The Wife of Willesden

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    This is the audio described version of The Wife of Willesden.

    A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because ...

  • Audio Description: This House

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    This is the audio described version of This House.

    It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of a nation.

    This House is a m...

  • Audio Description: Antony & Cleopatra

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    This is the audio described version of Antony & Cleopatra.

    Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Directed by Simon Godwin (Romeo & Juliet, Hansard).

    Caesar and his assassins...

  • Audio Description: Much Ado About Nothing

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    This is the audio described version of Much Ado About Nothing.

    Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.

    The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has ...

  • Audio Description: Blues for an Alabama Sky

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    This is the audio described version of Blues for an Alabama Sky.

    ‘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.

    In the face of hardship a...

  • Audio Description: The Seagull

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    This is the audio described version of The Seagull.

    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 pin...

  • Audio Description: Jack Absolute Flies Again

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    This is the audio described version of Jack Absolute Flies Again.

    From the writer of the Broadway smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors comes a hilarious new play, set in 1940s British summertime.

    After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his...

  • Audio Description: Henry V

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    This is the audio described version of Henry V.

    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...

  • Audio Description: Our Generation

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    This is the audio described version of Our Generation.

    Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.

    Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and movin...

  • Audio Description: The Boy with Two Hearts

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    This is the audio described version of The Boy with Two Hearts.

    Herat, Afghanistan, 2000.

    When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking on a long and terrifying journ...

  • Audio Description: All of Us

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    This is the audio described version of All of Us.

    Jess has a great life: a job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When austerity threatens the world she has worked hard to build, Jess makes a stand to protect those she holds most dear.

    ...

  • Audio Description: The Beaux' Stratagem

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    The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Litchfield.

    Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a t...

  • Audio Description: The Book of Dust

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    This is the audio described version of The Book of Dust.

    Set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman's fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.

    Two young people and their dæ...

  • Audio Description: King Lear

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    This is the audio described version of King Lear

    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 courtier –reject...

  • Audio Description: As You Like It

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    This is the audio described version of As You Like It.

    Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind.

    With her father the Duke in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the F...

  • Audio Description: 'Master Harold'...and the boys

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    This is the audio described version of 'Master Harold'...and the boys

    St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship.

    Hally arrives from school to hi...

  • Audio Description: Jane Eyre

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    This is the audio described version of Jane Eyre.

    Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane Eyre is as inspiring as ever.

    The production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. Facing obstacles, surviving poverty, injustice and ...

  • Audio Description: A Taste of Honey

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    This is the audio described version of A Taste of Honey.

    Lesley Sharp (Paradise) leads the cast as Helen in this gritty depiction of working-class life in post-war Britain. This production is an exhilarating portrayal of the vulnerabilities and strengths of the...

  • Audio Description: London Assurance

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    This is the audio described version of London Assurance.

    Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell-Beale take the lead in two of the greatest comic roles of the English stage, in this brilliantly funny play.

    Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable Lon...

  • Audio Description: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    This is the audio described version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

    Deep in the magical forest a feuding King and Queen cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors, resulting in tempestuous love triangles, contagious fogs and moonlight revels, surrounded b...

  • Audio Description: Death of England

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    This is the audio described version of Death of England.

    After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry.

    In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him.

    At the funeral, unannounced an...

  • Audio Description: Death of England: Delroy

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    This is the audio described version of Death of England: Delroy.

    Michael Balogun plays Delroy and delivers with 'firecracker energy’ (★★★★ Evening Standard) which explores a Black working-class man searching for truth and confronting his relationship with Great...

  • Audio Description: Death of England: Face to Face

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    This is the audio described version of Death of England: Face to Face.

    January 2021. Britain is locked down, divided and facing some difficult truths. Old friends Michael and Delroy are dealing with issues much closer to home. Tensions are running high.

    During an exp...

  • Audio Description: Trouble in Mind

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    This is the audio described version of Trouble in Mind.

    In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression.
    On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by ...

  • Audio Description: everyman

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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 close behind, his time is running out.

    Chiwetel Ejiofor is Everyman, directed...

  • Audio Description: Twelfth Night

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    This is the audio described version of Twelfth Night.

    Tamsin Greig is Malvoliain Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

    A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she st...

  • Audio Description: All About Eve

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    This is the audio described version of All About Eve.

    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 bigges...

  • Audio Description: Hedda Gabler

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    This is the audio described version of Hedda Gabler.

    Ruth Wilson plays Hedda and Rafe Spall is Brack in a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece.

    Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free...

    Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and th...

  • British Sign Language: Peter Pan

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    This is the British Sign Language version of Peter Pan

    All children, except one, grow up...

    JM Barrie’s spellbindingly, classic tale Peter Pan takes flight.

    When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she...

  • Audio Description: Peter Pan

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    This is the Audio Described version of Peter Pan.

    All children, except one, grow up...

    JM Barrie’s spellbindingly, classic tale Peter Pan takes flight.

    When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, ...

  • Audio Description: A View From The Bridge

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    This is the audio described version of A View From The Bridge.

    In Brooklyn, Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.

    Eddie’s jealous mistrust e...

  • Audio Description: Hansard

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    This is the audio described version of Hansard.

    It’s 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribb...

  • Audio Description: Paradise

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    This is the audio described version of Paradise.

    The all-female company, with Lesley Sharp as Philoctetes: once a celebrated wartime hero, now a wounded outcast on a desolate island.

    When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspi...

  • Audio Description: Rockets and Blue Lights

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    This is the audio described version of Rockets and Blue Lights.

    On the set of a new film about Victorian artist JMW Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840 Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freed...

  • Audio Description: Romeo & Juliet

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    This is the audio described version of Romeo & Juliet.

    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 new film brings to life the remarkable back...

  • Audio Description: Under Milk Wood

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    This is the audio described version of Under Milk Wood.

    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 eggs and the ...

  • Audio Description: All My Sons

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    This is the audio described version of All My Sons.

    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 long bur...

  • Audio Description: Chewing Gum Dreams

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    This is the audio described version of Chewing Gum Dreams.

    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 underst...

  • Audio Description: Medea

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    This is the audio described version of Medea

    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 P...

  • The Deep Blue Sea: Audio Description

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    This is the audio described version of The Deep Blue Sea.

    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 on...

  • Consent: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Consent

    Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.

    Nina Raine’s funny,...

  • Julius Caeser: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Julius Caesar

    Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate his victory. Alarmed by his popularity and growing power, a small group plot to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on...

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    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...

  • Angels in America Part One - Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Angels In America Part One: Millennium Approaches. 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 w...

  • Angels in America Part Two - Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Angels In America Part Two: Perestroika. 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, Jo...

  • Julie: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Julie.

    Wild and single, Julie throws a huge party in her luxurious London house which rapidly descends into a fight for her own survival.

    Vanessa Kirby plays Julie in Polly Stenham’s shocking and fiercely relevant new version of August Strindberg’s play M...

  • Yerma: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Yerma.

    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 staggering, shocking, climax. Billie Piper plays the ...

  • Phèdre: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Phèdre.

    Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson, and believing her absent husband is dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare.

    Helen Mirren plays the title role in this acclaimed production of the cla...

  • The Cherry Orchard: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of The Cherry Orchard.

    Russia, 1904. Ranyevskaya and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of a local entrepreneur to save their family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives up for auction and jeopardise the future of their beloved cherry orchard.

    Zoë...

  • Othello (2013): Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Othello.

    Furious about being overlooked for promotion, Iago plots to take revenge against his General, Othello.

    In this acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of envy and brutal revenge, Adrian Lester plays Othello and Rory Kinnear is the dupl...

  • Amadeus: Audio Description

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    This is the Audio Described version of Amadeus.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius and seized by obsessive jealousy, court composer Antonio Salieri begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God. ...