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Antigone
Age recommendation: 15+ (some strong, bloody images)
This archive recording was captured on 4th July, 2012.
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will...
Age recommendation: 15+ (some strong, bloody images)
This archive recording was captured on 4th July, 2012.
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey.
When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state.
Polly Fin...
Age recommendation: 15+ (some strong, bloody images)
This archive recording was captured on 4th July, 2012.
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey.
When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state.
Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political thriller.
CAST
Antigone: Jodie Whittaker
Ismene: Annabel Scholey
Chorus: Paul Bentall
Chorus: Martin Chamberlain
Chorus: Jason Cheater
Chorus: Stavros Demetraki
Chorus: Paul Dodds
Chorus: Craige Els
Chorus: Michael Grady-Hall
Chorus: Tim Samuels
Chorus: Ross Waiton
Chorus: Alfred Enoch
Creon, King of Thebes: Christopher Eccleston
Teiresias, a blind prophet: Jamie Ballard
Messenger: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Eurydice, Creon's Wife: Zoë Aldrich
Soldier: Luke Norris
Haemon: Luke Newberry
Boy: Trevor Imani
Boy: Reuben Pearce
Boy: Daniel Walsh
Ensemble: Jo Dockery
Ensemble: Emily Glenister
Music Director / Percussion: Philip Hopkins
Percussion: Joji Hirota
Woodwind: Tom Lessels
CREATIVES
Director: Polly Findlay
Writer: Don Taylor
Designer: Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson
Fight Director: Bret Yount
Movement Director: Aline David
Music and Sound Designer: Dan Jones
Video and Projection Designer: Dick Straker
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Consent
Age recommendation: 15+ (references to rape)
This archive recording was captured on 9th May, 2017.
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? 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 unrave...
Age recommendation: 15+ (references to rape)
This archive recording was captured on 9th May, 2017.
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? 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 powerful, painful, funny play sifts the evidence from every side and puts...
Age recommendation: 15+ (references to rape)
This archive recording was captured on 9th May, 2017.
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? 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 powerful, painful, funny play sifts the evidence from every side and puts justice herself in the dock. Consent received its world premiere in a co-production with Out of Joint at the National Theatre in April 2017.
CAST
Jake: Adam James
Kitty: Anna Maxwell Martin
Edward: Ben Chaplin
Tim: Pip Carter
Gayle: Heather Craney
Zara: Daisy Haggard
Rachel: Priyanga Burford
CREATIVES
Director: Roger Michell
Writer: Nina Raine
Music: Kate Whitley
Lighting Designer: Rick Fisher
Sound Designer: John Leonard
Costume Designer: Dinah Collin
Set Designer: Hildegard Bechtler
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Frankenstein (Benedict Cumberbatch as Creature)
Age recommendation: 15+ (contains nudity and one scene of sexual violence)
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 17th March, 2011.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meet...
Age recommendation: 15+ (contains nudity and one scene of sexual violence)
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 17th March, 2011.
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 friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator a...
Age recommendation: 15+ (contains nudity and one scene of sexual violence)
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 17th March, 2011.
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 friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.
The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world.
Jonny Lee Miller plays Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch his creation in this performance of Danny Boyle's smash-hit production of Frankenstein.
CAST
The Creature - Benedict Cumberbatch
Victor Frankenstein - Jonny Lee Miller
Agatha de Lacey - Lizzie Winkler
De Lacey - Karl Johnson
Felix De Lacey - Daniel Millar
Elizabeth Lavenza - Naomie Harris
William Frankenstein - William Nye
M. Frankenstein - George Harris
Clarice - Ella Smith
Ewan - John Stahl
Female Creature - Andreea Padurariu
Constable - John Killoran
Rab - Mark Armstrong
Servant - Martin Chamberlain
Ensemble - Josie Daxter
Klaus - Steven Elliott
Servant - Daniel Ings
Gustav - John Killoran
Gretel - Ella Smith
Ensemble - Haydon Downing
CREATIVES
Director - Danny Boyle
Set Designer - Mark Tildesley
Costume Designer - Suttirat Anne Larlarb
Lighting Designer - Bruno Poet
Music & Sound Score - Underworld
Director of Movement - Toby Sedgwick, Sedgwick Creative Ltd
Fight Director - Kate Waters
Sound Design - Ed Clarke
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Hamlet
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 9th December, 2010.
Director Nicholas Hytner offers a detailed political, social and psychological context to Hamlet's dilemma: whether or not to avenge the death of his father.
Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in this dynamic productio...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 9th December, 2010.
Director Nicholas Hytner offers a detailed political, social and psychological context to Hamlet's dilemma: whether or not to avenge the death of his father.
Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in this dynamic production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition. His performance earned him an Evening Standard Award.
CAST
Haml...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 9th December, 2010.
Director Nicholas Hytner offers a detailed political, social and psychological context to Hamlet's dilemma: whether or not to avenge the death of his father.
Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in this dynamic production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition. His performance earned him an Evening Standard Award.
CAST
Hamlet - Rory Kinnear
Barnado - Michael Peavoy
Francisco - Matthew Barker
Horatio - Giles Terera
Marcellus - Marcus Cunningham
Ghost of the Late King - James Laurenson
Claudius - Patrick Malahide
Voltemand - James Pearse
Priest - Leo Staar
Laertes - Alex Lanipekun
Polonius - David Calder
Gertrude - Clare Higgins
Cornelia - Ellie Turner
Reynaldo - Victor Power
Rosencrantz - Ferdinand Kingsley
Guildenstern - Prasanna Puwanarajah
Player Queen - Saskia Portway
Lucianus - Michael Sheldon
Fortinbras - Jake Fairbrother
Osric - Nick Sampson
Messenger - Zara Tempest-Walters
Ophelia - Ruth Nega
Gravedigger - David Calder
English Ambassador - Michael Sheldon
Captain in Fortinbras' army - Matthew Barker
Player King - James Laurenson
CREATIVES
Director - Nicholas Hytner
Designer - Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Designer - Jon Clark
Composer - Alex Baranowski
Sound Designer - Paul Groothuis
Fight Director - Kate Waters
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Medea
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 4th September, 2014.
Terrible things breed in broken hearts. Medea is a wife and a mother, stricken with grief. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his famil...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 4th September, 2014.
Terrible things breed in broken hearts. Medea is a wife and a mother, stricken with grief. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace.
It’s time enough. Sh...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 4th September, 2014.
Terrible things breed in broken hearts. Medea is a wife and a mother, stricken with grief. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace.
It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
Helen McCrory takes the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell, with music written by Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp.
CAST
Nurse - Michaela Coel
Medea - Helen McCrory
Aegeus, King of Athens - Dominic Rowan
Jason - Danny Sapani
Kreusa - Clemmie Sveaas
Kreon, King of Corinth - Martin Turner
Jason's Attendant - Toby Wharton
Medea's son - T'Jai Adu-Xeboah
Medea's son - Ricco Godfrey Brown
Medea's son - Trevor Imani
Medea's son - Kyron Wilson
Medea's son - Joel McDermott
Medea's son - Jude Pearce
Chorus - Lorna Brown
Chorus - Vivien Carter
Chorus - Amy Griffiths
Chorus - Hazel Holder
Chorus - Jane Leaney
Chorus - Caroline Martin
Chorus - Daisy Maywood
Chorus - Yuyu Rau
Chorus - Petra Söör
Chorus - Naomi Tadevossian
Chorus - Cath Whitefield
Chorus - Jane Wymark
Chorus - Clemmie Sveaas
Ensemble - Simon Desborough
Ensemble - Adrian Grove
CREATIVES
Director - Carrie Cracknell
Adaptor/Writer - Ben Power
Designer - Tom Scutt
Lighting Designer - Lucy Carter
Choreographer - Lucy Guerin
Music - Will Gregory
Music - Alison Goldfrapp
Sound Designer - Gregory Clarke
Fight Director - Owain Gwynn
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She Stoops to Conquer
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 29th March, 2012.
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son, with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlowe...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 29th March, 2012.
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son, with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlowe for an innkeeper, and his daughter for a local barmaid.
But while Marlowe can barely speak to a woman of quality, he's a charmer wit...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 29th March, 2012.
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son, with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlowe for an innkeeper, and his daughter for a local barmaid.
But while Marlowe can barely speak to a woman of quality, he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, and mayhem ensues.
One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.
CAST
Bet Bouncer - Amy Booth-Steel
Bridget - Sarah Moyle
Constance Neville - Cush Jumbo
Dick Muggins - Stavros Demetraki
Diggory - Oliver Jackson
Douglas - Matthew Seadon-Young
Hastings - John Heffernan
Jack Slang - Russell Wilcox
Jeremy - Matthew Seadon-Young
Kate Hardcastle - Katherine Kelly
Landlord - Gavin Spokes
Mark - Stavros Demetraki
Marlow - Harry Hadden-Paton
Mr Hardcastle - Steve Pemberton
Mrs Hardcastle - Sophie Thompson
Paul - Russell Wilcox
Phyllis - Zoe Rainey
Pimple - Amy Booth-Steel
Roger - Jonathan Glew
Sir Charles Marlow - Timothy Speyer
Thomas - Terry Doe
Tony Lumpkin - David Fynn
William - Gavin Spokes
CREATIVES
Director - Jamie Lloyd
Designer - Mark Thompson
Lighting Designer - Neil Austin
Movement Director - Ann Yee
Sound and Music - Max Ringham
Sound and Music - Ben Ringham
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She Stoops to Conquer
Small Island
Age recommendation: 15+ (strong language and racist terms)
Recorded through National Theatre Live on 30th May, 2019.
Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, Small Island follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Q...
Age recommendation: 15+ (strong language and racist terms)
Recorded through National Theatre Live on 30th May, 2019.
Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, Small Island follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaic...
Age recommendation: 15+ (strong language and racist terms)
Recorded through National Theatre Live on 30th May, 2019.
Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, Small Island follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
Andrea Levy’s epic, Orange Prize-winning novel bursts to new life on the Olivier stage. A company of 40 tells a story which journeys from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.
CAST
Mrs Ryder: Amy Forrest
Hortense: Leah Harvey
Miss Jewel: Sandra James-Young
Little Hortense: Keira Chansa
Mr Philip/GI/Kenneth: Trevor Laird
Miss Ma: Jacqueline Boatswain
Little Michael: Shaquahn Crowe
Michael: CJ Beckford
Policeman/GI: Natey Jones
Woman in Hurricane: Chereen Buckley
Bernard: Andrew Rothney
Queenie: Aisling Loftus
Aunt Dorothy/Woman with Baby: Beatie Edney
Mrs Buxton/Miss Todd/Woman in Cinema: Stephanie Jacob
Mr Buxton/Ginger/ Sergeant Thwaites/Railway Worker: Adam Ewan
Young Man in Sweet Shop/Kip/ GI/Railway Worker: Cavan Clarke
Arthur: David Fielder
Franny: Phoebe Frances Brown
Franny: Rebecca Lee
Gilbert: Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
Recruiting Officer One/Soames/Railway Worker/Military Policeman: Paul Bentall
Elwood: Johann Myers
Recruiting Officer Two/GI/Foreman: John Hastings
Usherette: CJ Johnson
GI: Daniel Norford
Celia: Shiloh Coke
CREATIVES
Director: Rufus Norris
Adapter: Helen Edmundson
Writer: Andrea Levy
Set and Costume Designer: Katrina Lindsay
Projection Designer: Jon Driscoll
Lighting Designer: Paul Anderson
Composer and Rehearsal Music Director: Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Sound Designer: Ian Dickinson
Movement Director: Coral Messam
Fight Director: Kate Waters
Music Consultant: Gary Crosby
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Translations
Age recommendation: 12+
This archive recording was captured on 31st July, 2018.
What happens when a land is robbed of its language?
Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful account of nationhood, which sees the turbulent relationship between England and Ireland play out in one quiet community.
Owen, the prodigal...
Age recommendation: 12+
This archive recording was captured on 31st July, 2018.
What happens when a land is robbed of its language?
Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful account of nationhood, which sees the turbulent relationship between England and Ireland play out in one quiet community.
Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers. Their ambition is to create a map of the area, repl...
Age recommendation: 12+
This archive recording was captured on 31st July, 2018.
What happens when a land is robbed of its language?
Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful account of nationhood, which sees the turbulent relationship between England and Ireland play out in one quiet community.
Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers. Their ambition is to create a map of the area, replacing the Gaelic names with English. It is an administrative act with radical consequences.
CAST
Jimmy Jack Cassie: Dermot Crowley
Maire: Judith Roddy
Hugh: Ciaran Hinds
Lieutenant Yolland: Adetomiwa Edun
Manus: Seamus O’Hara
Sarah: Michelle Fox
Doalty: Laurence Kinlan
Bridget: Aoife Duffin
Owen: Colin Morgan
Captain Lancey: Rufus Wright
MUSIC
Double Bass: Nicki Davenport
Company Voice Work: Charmian Hoare
MD and Guitars: Dario Rossetti-Bonell
Viola: Anna Cooper
Percussion: Stephen Hiscock
CREATIVES
Director: Ian Rickson
Writer: Brian Friel
Designer: Rae Smith
Lighting Designer: Neil Austin
Movement: Anna Morrissey
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Sound Designer: Ian Dickinson
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Twelfth Night
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 6th April, 2017.
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...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 6th April, 2017.
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 unrequited love.
The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is sw...
Age recommendation: 12+
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 6th April, 2017.
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 unrequited love.
The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.
Simon Godwin directs this joyous new production with Tasmin Greig as a transformed Malvolia, in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.
CAST
Viola - Tamara Lawrance
Sebastian - Daniel Ezra
Orsino - Oliver Chris
Curio - Emmanuel Kojo
Valentine - Brad Morrison
Captain - James Wallace
Sir Toby Belch - Tim McMullan
Maria - Niky Wardley
Sir Andrew Aguecheek - Daniel Rigby
Antonio - Adam Best
Feste - Doon Mackichan
Olivia - Phoebe Fox
Malvolia - Tamsin Greig
Fabia - Imogen Doel
Servant - Whitney Kehinde
Priest - James Wallace
Officer - Ammar Duffus
Ensemble - Claire Cordier
Ensemble - Mary Doherty
Ensemble - Andrew MacBean
Ensemble - Imogen Slaughter
Music Director - Dan Jackson
CREATIVES
Director - Simon Godwin
Designer - Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Designer - James Farncombe
Music - Michael Bruce
Sound Designer - Christopher Shutt
Fight Director - Kev McCurdy
Choreographer - Shelley Maxwell
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