Audio Description: Famous Faces

Explore celebrated actors who've brought iconic stories to life on the National Theatre stage. From world-renowned stars to emerging talents, National Theatre at Home offers a front-row seat to breathtaking performances.

Vanya
Dive into Anton Chekhov’s timeless and dramatic play Vanya, reimagined as a one-man adaptation that provides a modern touch and breathes life into a classic story.

The story of Vanya takes place on a rural estate where family tensions and unfulfilled dreams collide. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle with the return of Sonya's father and his captivating young wife, Yelena.

Andrew Scott plays Vanya and provides a nuanced performance that draws you into the complexities of family, unrequited love, and personal disillusionment, allowing you to experience Chekhov’s world.

Angels in America
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America play is a landmark piece of theatre, and the National Theatre’s production brings it to life. This groundbreaking drama explores the intersecting lives of diverse characters during the AIDS crisis in 1980s America, grappling with themes of identity, mortality, and redemption.

The Angels in America cast, including Andrew Garfield, provide stellar performances that bring audiences closer to the raw emotion and complex themes that have made this play one of the most significant works in modern theatre.

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  • Audio Description: Teeth 'N' Smiles

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    This is the audio described version of Teeth 'N' Smiles

    Before the New York Dolls. Before Debbie Harry. Before Kurt Cobain. There was Maggie Frisby.

    Once the roaring voice of 60s counterculture and punk rock movement, now broke and disillusioned. A band’s youthful dreams of anarchic rebellio...

  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Full Play - Audio Description

  • Audio Description: Inter Alia

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    This is the audio described version of Inter Alia.

    Jessica Parks is a judge, a mother, a wife, a friend. Her career exists inter alia (among other things). How will one unthinkable event pull into question all aspects of her life?

    Following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, Suzie Miller and...

  • Audio Description: One Man, Two Guvnors

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    This is the audio described version of One Man, Two Guvnors.

    Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from the dad of his fiancée.

    But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead b...

  • Audio Description: Medea

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    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...

  • Audio Description: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

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    This is the audio described version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!.

    Cowboy Curly McClain sets out to win the heart of a girl in an all-singing and all-dancing extravaganza.

    Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) made his big break alongside Josefina Gabrielle (Merrily We Roll Along), Dame M...

  • Yerma: Audio Description

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    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...

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Audio Description

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    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 th...

  • Audio Description: The Importance of Being Earnest

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    This is the audio described version of The Importance of Being Earnest.

    A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so.

    While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, ...

  • Audio Description: GOOD

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    This is the audio described version of GOOD.

    David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

    As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, f...

  • Audio Description: Everyman

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    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 runn...

  • Audio Description: The Land of the Living

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    ‘All my life – all your life – I’ve struggled with this: was what I did “wrong”?’

    The Land of the Living is a powerful historical drama set in Germany in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Thomas, one of thous...

  • Audio Description: King Lear

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    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 the children who truly l...

  • Audio Description: Under Milk Wood

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    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 ...

  • Audio Description: The Seagull

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    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 dreams. ...

  • Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches - Audio Description

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    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 interconnecting lives grapple with life and d...

  • Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika - Audio Description

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    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, Joe, Belize, Louis,...

  • Audio Description: Vanya

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    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...

  • Audio Description: All My Sons (2019)

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    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 buried truths are forced to t...

  • Audio Description: Chewing Gum Dreams

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    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 understands. Michaela Coel plays ...

  • Audio Description: Death of England :Delroy

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    '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...

  • Audio Description: Mosquitoes

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    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. ...

  • Audio Description: The Brightening Air

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    This is the audio described version of The Brightening Air.

    How much of living is really just forgetting?

    The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic.

    And, for brother and sister Stephen ...

  • The Deep Blue Sea: Audio Description

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    When Hester is found following a failed suicide attempt, 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 fe...