Audio Description

Audio Description

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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.

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  • Audio Description: Home

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of 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 a record high, so when th...

  • Audio Description: Three Sisters

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Three Sisters.

    Nigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village.

    Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria on the brink of the Biafra...

  • Audio Description: Dara

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Dara.

    1659 Mughal India. A ferocious war of succession rages between the heirs to the Muslim empire; two brothers with very different visions of its future.

    Shahid Nadeem's epic tale of the dispute that shaped modern-day India and Pakistan is directed by N...

  • Audio Description: The Little Big Things

    Movie + 2 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Little Big Things, a new musical

    An extraordinary true story about an ordinary family.

    When one moment changes everything, Henry’s family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never foresee.

    Based on the Sunday Tim...

  • Audio Description: Ian McKellen on Stage

    Movie + 2 extras

    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 by Sean Mathias and captured live from the West End in London, Ian Mc...

  • Audio Description: The House of Bernarda Alba

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The House of Bernarda Alba.

    Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?

    Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable m...

  • Audio Description: The Father and the Assassin

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Father and the Assassin.

    Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader.

    Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi.

    This gripping play traces Godse’s life over 30 years during India’s fight for indep...

  • Audio Description: As You Like It

    Movie + 3 extras

    Subscribe and watch the audio-described performance of As You Like It from National Theatre.

    Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind.

    With her father the Duke in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journe...

  • Audio Description: All About Eve

    Movie + 3 extras

    Subscribe to a National Theatre at Home theatre membership to watch audio-described performances of All About Eve.

    Gillian Anderson (A Streetcar Name Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia!) lead in All About Eve.

    Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has be...

  • Audio Description: Grenfell: in the words of survivors

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Grenfell: in the words of survivors.

    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 failu...

  • Audio Description: Jack Absolute Flies Again

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Jack Absolute Flies Again.

    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 ...

  • Audio Description: The Effect

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Effect.

    Watch the unmissable Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) and Taylor Russell (Bones and All) in this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics. Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac) and written by Lucy Prebble (Succession).

    As two y...

  • Audio Description: Kerry Jackson

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Kerry Jackson.

    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 the local characters in ...

  • Audio Description: The Crucible

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Crucible.

    Speak of the devil and he appears.

    A witch hunt is beginning in Salem.

    Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power.

    As a climate of fear spreads through the community, private vend...

  • Audio Description: I Want My Hat Back

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of I Want My Hat Back.

    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 Want My Hat B...

  • Audio Description: The Corn Is Green

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Corn is Green.

    One person can make all the difference.

    Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined to help young local miners out of poverty by teaching them to read and write.

    Lily soon spots talent in the unruly Morgan Evans, but when...

  • Audio Description: Othello (2022)

    Movie + 4 extras

    This is the audio described version of Othello (2022).

    Take your seats for Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, Othello.

    Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) and Tanya Franks (Mum).

    She’s a bright,...

  • Audio Description: Frankenstein (with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature)

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Frankenstein.

    This version of Frankenstein is with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature.

    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...

  • Audio Description: Frankenstein (with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature)

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Frankenstein.

    This version of Frankenstein is with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature.

    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 crue...

  • Audio Description: Best of Enemies

    Movie + 2 extras

    This is the audio described version of Best of Enemies.

    David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama.

    In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the batt...

  • Audio Description: Hex

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Hex.

    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 ...

  • Audio Description: Dixon and Daughters

    Movie + 4 extras

    This is the audio described version of Dixon and Daughters.

    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 ref...

  • Audio Description: The Wife of Willesden

    Movie + 4 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Wife of Willesden.

    A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman’s got the gift ...

  • Audio Description: Antigone

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Antigone.

    The new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him and honours her brother. Creon takes action against her, risking the wrath of ...