Audio Description
This is theatre for everyone. Any time, anywhere.
Audio Description allows blind and partially sighted audiences to experience theatre. It is a live verbal commentary providing information on the visual elements of a production as it unfolds.
Captions are similar to subtitling and gives Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people access to theatre. Captioning is also helpful for customers whose first language is not English and students who are studying the text of a play.
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Audio Description: Mosquitoes
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Mosquitoes.
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. ...
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Audio Description: Ballet Shoes
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Ballet Shoes.
‘The best kind of family is the one you’re able to choose’
In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be.
Under the watchful ...
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Audio Description: A Tupperware of Ashes
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of A Tupperware of Ashes.
An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to ...
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Audio Description: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of Behind the Beautiful Forevers.
Stream the National Theatre production of Behind the Beautiful Forevers with National Theatre at Home.
What is Behind the Beautiful Forevers about?
In India’s biggest slum, beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airpor...
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Audio Description: Red
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Red.
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
Michael Grandage directs the first...
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Audio Description: 50 Years on Stage
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of 50 Years on Stage.
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 repris...
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Audio Description: The Wind in the Willows
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of The Wind in the Willows.
The hit musical from creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, and award-winning composer and lyricist, George Stiles & Anthony Drewe.
Join Ratty, Badger, Mole and the impulsive Toad on a series of riotous adventures spiralling f...
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Audio Description: The Other Place
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of The Other Place.
Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father.
Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands...
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Audio Description: Waitress: The Musical
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Waitress: The Musical.
Waitress: The Musical brings the Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon to National Theatre at Home. Featuring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marri...
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Audio Description: Death of England :Closing Time
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Death of England: Closing Time.
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.
Sharon Duncan-Brewster an...
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Audio Description: Death of England :Delroy
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Death of England :Delroy.
'Raw, gutsy and exhilarating' (★★★★ Evening Standard)
Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy’s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carl...
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Audio Description: Death of England :Michael
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Death of England :Michael.
A family in mourning. A man in crisis.
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 fun...
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Audio Description: Coriolanus
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Coriolanus.
Warrior. Hero. Traitor.
Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome’s greatest soldier.
When a legendary victory brings the opportunity of high office, he is persuaded to stand for election. But while ...
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Audio Description: Present Laughter
Movie + 3 extras
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 Essendine’s colourful life is in d...
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Audio Description: The Grapes of Wrath
Movie + 3 extras
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.
Their story is one of false ...
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Audio Description: Nye
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Nye.
Following its 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 to as the politician with g...
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Audio Description: Macbeth
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of Macbeth.
Macbeth is coming.
A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.
Tony and BAFTA Awar...
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Audio Description: London Tide
Movie + 7 extras
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 romantic and propulsive thriller ...
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Audio Description: People, Places & Things
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of People, Places & Things.
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’ (Wha...
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Audio Description: Vanya
Movie + 3 extras
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 focus in this one-man ada...
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Audio Description: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
Movie + 3 extras
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 one. The other, other one...
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Audio Description: Dear Octopus
Movie + 3 extras
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. Their children, meanwhile,...
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Audio Description: Till the Stars Come Down
Movie + 3 extras
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 and dances are shared, pa...
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Audio Description: No Man's Land
Movie + 3 extras
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 drinking into the night at Hi...