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‘On the face of it, something has to change’

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her ‘masterful West End debut’ (★★★★ Guardian) in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of ...

Stream the multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, All of Us Strangers, Fleabag).

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by a...

The great American novel reimagined.

Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.

Their story is one of false hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to huma...

Rent Nye with National Theatre at Home.

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister.

Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories ...

A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.

Based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, this romantic and propulsive thriller is a hymn to the city and the river that runs through...

Stream Vanya with Andrew Scott, Frankenstein (with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature) and Frankenstein (with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature) - now available with Spanish subtitles.

Vanya

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon S...

Rent Vanya with 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 regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adapta...

Rent People, Places & Things with National Theatre at Home.

Duncan Macmillan’s (Lungs, 1984) intoxicating hit play People, Places & Things, directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, Wolf Hall, This House) and designed by Tony Award-winner Bunny Christie, is a ‘must-see all over again’ (WhatsO...

Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women.

This is a story ab...

The family, from whose tentacles we can never quite escape.

When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. Their children, meanwhile, are haunted by the memory of the family they once wer...

Everyone loves a wedding…

It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited.

Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, passions boil over and the limits of love are tested.

What happens...

An extraordinary true story about an ordinary family.

When one moment changes everything, Henry’s family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never foresee.

Based on the Sunday Times best-selling autobiography by Henry Fraser, The Little Big Things is a upl...

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Rent the Olivier award-winning Constellations, starring Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it...

Rent the Olivier award-winning Constellations, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O'Dowd.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They h...

Rent the Donmar Warehouse production Constellations, starring Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They ...

Rent the Olivier award-winning Constellations, starring Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it...

Rent Kin with National Theatre at Home.

In 1932, Leah and her family escaped persecution and embarked on a journey from Yemen to Palestine.

Ninety years later, her grandson Amit Lahav (Artistic Director of Gecko) reflects on the life-changing decision his family made to flee and build a bett...

Rent The House of Bernarda Alba with National Theatre at Home.

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 formidable matr...

Rent The Father and the Assassin with National Theatre at Home.

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 independ...

Rent Grenfell: in the words of survivors with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent The Effect with National Theatre at Home.

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 Prebble ...

Rent The Crucible with National Theatre at Home.

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 vendett...

Rent Kerry Jackson with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent The Corn is Green with National Theatre at Home.

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 sh...

Rent Othello, a play by Shakespeare with National Theatre at Home.

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, headstron...

Rent Best of Enemies with National Theatre at Home.

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, ...

Rent Hex the musical with National Theatre at Home.

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 ni...

Rent Dixon and Daughters with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent The Wife of Willesden with National Theatre at Home.

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 t...

Rent Phaedra with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Much Ado About Nothing with National Theatre at Home.

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, cele...

Rent Blues for an Alabama Sky with National Theatre at Home.

‘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, A...

Rent 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 the woman of his dre...

Rent Jack Absolute Flies Again with National Theatre at Home.

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 Hu...

Rent Henry V with National Theatre at Home.

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in William 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 campai...

Rent Our Generation with National Theatre at Home.

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 –...

Rent The Boy with Two Hearts online with National Theatre at Home.

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 t...

Rent Ugly Lies The Bone online with National Theatre at Home.

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 abou...

Rent All of Us with National Theatre at Home.

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 experie...

Rent The Beaux Stratagem with National Theatre at Home.

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 l...

Rent The Book of Dust with National Theatre at Home.

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 stak...

Rent Frankenstein with National Theatre at Home. 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 ma...

Rent Frankenstein with National Theatre at Home. 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....

Rent Ian McKellen On Stage with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent 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 courtier –reject the children who t...

Rent Young Marx with National Theatre at Home.

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, S...

Rent As You Like It with National Theatre at Home.

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, rel...

Rent Master Harold and the Boys with National Theatre at Home.

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’ ...

Rent Jane Eyre online with National Theatre at Home.

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 bitt...

Rent A Taste of Honey with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent Death of England with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Death of England: Delroy with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent Death of England: Face to Face with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent Trouble in Mind with National Theatre at Home.

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 Wilet...

Rent Faith, Hope and Charity with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent London Assurance with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent LOVE with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Oliver Twist with National Theatre at Home.

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 v...

Rent No Man's Land with National Theatre at Home.

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'...

Rent the Twelfth Night with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent 50 Years on Stage with National Theatre at Home.

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 c...

Rent All About Eve with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Peter Pan with National Theatre at Home.

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, ...

Rent The Habit of Art with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Hedda Gabler with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Salomé with National Theatre at Home.

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 cen...

Rent Antony and Cleopatra with National Theatre at Home.

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 An...

Rent Paradise with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Rockets and Blue Lights with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent This House with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Romeo and Juliet online with National Theatre at Home.

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 Natio...

Rent Under Milk Wood with National Theatre at Home.

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 s...

Rent Home with National Theatre at Home.

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 b...

Rent Hansard with National Theatre at Home.

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 ribbing and the familiar rhythms ...

Rent Chewing Gum Dreams with National Theatre at Home.

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 Tra...

Rent A View from the Bridge with National Theatre at Home.

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 se...

Rent Everyman with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent All My Sons with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent A Midsummer Night's Dream with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent The Deep Blue Sea online with National Theatre at Home.

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 fema...

Rent Julius Caesar with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with National Theatre at Home.

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 thre...

Rent Consent with National Theatre at Home.

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 pla...

Rent Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches 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 wit...

Rent Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika with National Theatre at Home.

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, ...

Rent Behind the Beautiful Forever's with National Theatre at Home.

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. Thei...

Rent Antigone with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Julie with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Mosquitoes with National Theatre at Home.

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.

F...

Rent The Cherry Orchard online with National Theatre at Home.

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. ...

Rent Amadeus with National Theatre at Home.

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.

Pe...

Rent Othello online with National Theatre at Home.

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 th...

Rent Medea with National Theatre at Home.

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 b...

Rent Three Sisters with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Rent Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back with National Theatre at Home.

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, ...

Rent Dara with National Theatre at Home.

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 ...

Rent Yerma with National Theatre at Home.

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 t...

Rent Phèdre with National Theatre at Home.

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 classi...

This is the audio described version of Prima Facie.

‘On the face of it, something has to change’

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her ‘masterful West End debut’ (★★★★ Guardian) in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

Tessa is a young, brilliant barri...

This is the British Sign Language version of Prima Facie.

‘On the face of it, something has to change’

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her ‘masterful West End debut’ (★★★★ Guardian) in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

Tessa is a young, brilliant...

This is the audio described version of Present Laughter.

Stream the multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, All of Us Strangers, Fleabag).

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry...

This is the audio described version of The Grapes of Wrath.

The great American novel reimagined.

Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.

Th...

This is the British Sign Language version of Nye.

Following it's critically acclaimed debut, Nye with Michael Sheen is now streaming on National Theatre at Home.

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often ref...

This is the audio described version of Nye.

Following it's critically acclaimed debut, Nye with Michael Sheen is now streaming on National Theatre at Home.

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred ...

This is the audio described version of London Tide.

A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.

Based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, this romanti...

This is the British Sign Language of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.

Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that o...

This is the audio described version of Vanya.

Duncan Macmillan’s (Lungs, 1984) intoxicating hit play People, Places & Things, directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, Wolf Hall, This House) and designed by Tony Award-winner Bunny Christie, is a ‘must-see all over aga...

This is the audio described version of Vanya.

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 regrets are thrust into sharp...

This is the Audio described version of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.

Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that...

This is the British Sign Language version of Romeo & Juliet.

Watch Romeo and Juliet the play online with National Theatre at Home.

Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violenc...

This is the British Sign Language 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...

This is the audio described version of Dear Octopus.

The family, from whose tentacles we can never quite escape

When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. T...

This is the British Sign Language 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 versi...

This is the British Sign Language version of The Little Big Things, a new musical

An extraordinary true story about an ordinary family.

When one moment changes everything, Henry’s family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never f...

This is the audio described version of Till The Stars Come Down.

Everyone loves a wedding…

It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited.

Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows...

This is the audio described version of No Man's Land.

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 dri...

This is the audio described version of The Little Big Things, a new musical

An extraordinary true story about an ordinary family.

When one moment changes everything, Henry’s family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never foresee...

This is the audio described version of Constellations, starring Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeep...

This is the audio described version of Constellations, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O'Dowd.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a be...

This is the audio described version of Constellations, starring Omari Douglas and Russel Tovey.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeepe...

This is the audio described version of Constellations, starring Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah.

Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities.

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

A quantum physicist and a beekeep...

This is the audio described version of Ian McKellen on Stage.

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 t...

This is the audio described version of The House of Bernarda Alba.

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 (Successi...

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...

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...

This is the audio described version of The Effect.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This is the audio described version of Home.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Rent this audio-described performance of Antony & Cleopatra at the National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

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

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 ...

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...

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...

This is the audio described version of Three Sisters.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rent an audio described performance of All of Us by National Theatre at Home.

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 tho...

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...

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...

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...

Rent the audio-described performance of As You Like It from National Theatre. 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 an...

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

Hally arrives from school to hi...

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 ...

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...

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...

Rent this audio-described theatre performance 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, su...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This is the audio described performance of All About Eve available to rent from National Theatre at Home.

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 he...

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...

This is the British Sign Language version of Peter Pan

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

This is the Audio Described version of Peter Pan.

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

This is the audio described version of Dara.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...