National Theatre Live
List activity
36 views
• 1 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
60 titles
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsPortia BooroffChipo ChungDominic CooperThe wife of the Athenian King Theseus conceives a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsRichard GriffithsAlex JenningsAdrian ScarboroughBenjamin 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.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsNick SampsonRichard FramePaul ReadyGrace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsMichael PeavoyMatthew BarkerDavid CalderHamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsSuzanne ToaseTrevor LairdFred RidgewayFrancis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe, a small time East End hood. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubber. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRoss MacGibbonStarsAlex JenningsSimon Russell BealeMark AddyMoscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsTom AllwintonNorma AtallahRoy BaronIn a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsMatt AyleighSimon Russell BealePaul BentallTimon of Athens is a play unique to Shakespeare as it offers a central character without family or partner; the story of a rich and liberal Athenian whose generosity is exploited until he learns the full extent of man's greed.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsFranc AshmanLinda BassettEllie BurrowPeople spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do?
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsJonathan BaileySandy BatchelorAdam BerryThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerTim Van SomerenHoward DaviesStarsRoger AllamSamuel AndersonAlan AyckbournThe Royal National Theatre celebrates 50 years of excellent theatre, with extracts of some of the best plays of the last five decades, peformed by the countries best performers.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsDamien MolonyOlivia VinallParth ThakerarHilary is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is 'the hard problem'.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsRory KinnearNancy CarrollOliver Chris1850. Europe's most feared terrorist is hiding in Soho. Broke, restless and horny, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there's still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerTony Grech-SmithStarsBen WhishawMichelle FairleyDavid MorrisseyCaesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat's popularity, the educated elite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of Rome.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerEmily BurnsJames CousinsStarsJulie AthertonHolly AtkinsWendy Mae BrownTwo young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsAlisha BaileyDavid BromleyRalph FiennesFiennes is brilliant portraying Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), a very powerful and charismatic urban planner, whose career spanned over 40 years. Early in his career, Moses claimed to want to give all New Yorkers easy access to the outdoors, but with time, his motives were revealed to be less pure. David Hare's script is based on a biography by Robert Caro.
- DirectorRob AshfordTim Van SomerenStarsDavid AnnenAndy ApolloElliot BalchinAs Macbeth rides home from battle, three witches prophecise that he will soon rise in power to become King of Scotland. Aided by his wife, the pair will stop at nothing to seal their fate.
- DirectorStephen DaldryRobin LoughStarsCarey MulliganBill NighyMatthew BeardOn a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTim Van SomerenStarsRochenda SandallMark StanleyDwane WalcottCaius Martius Coriolanus is a war hero, banished from his home, seeking to come back.
- DirectorDanny BoyleTim Van SomerenStarsJonny Lee MillerBenedict CumberbatchAndreea PaduraruChildlike 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 Creature determines to track down his creator.
- DirectorJustin MartinStarsJodie ComerTessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
- DirectorDominic CookeStarsDavid TennantElliot LeveySharon SmallAs the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTony Grech-SmithStarsJanet McTeerMorfydd ClarkAdjoa AndohMarquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
- DirectorNick WickhamStarsKate DuchêneChukwudi IwujiÉva MagyarHedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
- DirectorJamie LloydStarsJason BarnettEmilia ClarkeRobert GlenisterThe Seagull is a filmed performance of the play by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Anya Reiss, in which a woman leaves Moscow to visit her terminally ill brother.