There are two sides to every story.

Grieving the loss of the family shop with their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives’ mistakes.

The Death of England cast includes Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Erin Doherty playing Denise and Car...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein.

What is Frankenstein about?

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

Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle, featuring Jonny Lee Miller as the creature and Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein.

What is Frankenstein about?

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

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...

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 of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sp...

Stream the National Theatre play Hedda Gabler with a subscription from National Theatre at Home.

The Hedda Gabler cast is led by Ruth Wilson playing Hedda and Rafe Spall is Brack in this modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece.

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

Hedda an...

Watch William Shakespeare's Henry V with National Theatre at Home.

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power.

Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his c...

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 ...

Watch Home with a theatre subscription from 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...

Watch Ian Mckellen On Stage online 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 ...

Stream 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, I ...

Stream 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 Hurricane...

Watch Jane Eyre online with National Theatre at Home.

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

What is Jane Eyre about?

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

Stream Julie, a play by National Theatre 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...

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 with dy...

Stream the National Theatre play 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 t...

Watch Ķīn with a theatre subscription from 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 ...

Watch Ian McKellen on stage in Shakespeare's play King Lear with National Theatre at Home.

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, Ian McKellen is King Lear in Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

What is King Lear about?

King Lear sees two ageing fat...

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....

Stream London Tide, a play from National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

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 roma...