Audio Description

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.

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  • 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 ...

  • Audio Description: Antony & Cleopatra

    Movie + 3 extras

    Watch this audio-described performance of Antony & Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes at National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

    Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Directed by Simon Godwin (Romeo & Juliet...

  • Audio Description: This House

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of This House.

    It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of a nation.

    This House is a moving and funny insight to the work...

  • Audio Description: Much Ado About Nothing

    Movie + 4 extras

    This is the audio described version of Much Ado About Nothing.

    Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.

    The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, c...

  • Audio Description: Blues for an Alabama Sky

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Blues for an Alabama Sky.

    ‘To realise our dreams, we must wake up.’

    New York, 1930. Following a decade of creative explosion, the Harlem Renaissance is starting to feel the bite of the Great Depression.

    In the face of hardship and dwindling opportunity, ...

  • Audio Description: The Seagull

    Movie + 4 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Seagull.

    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. ...

  • Audio Description: Henry V

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Henry V.

    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 campaign encounters r...

  • Audio Description: Our Generation

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Our Generation.

    Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.

    Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who i...