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What is The House of Bernarda Alba about?

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-wi...

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...

Stream Phaedra, a play by National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpin...

Watch The Crucible play online with National Theatre at Home.

What is The Crucible about?

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 spre...

Stream Medea the play with National Theatre at Home.

Heartbroken and stricken with grief, Medea plans appalling revenge on her ex-husband, Jason, to destroy everything she holds dear.

Helen McCrory leads the Medea cast in the title role of Euripides’ powerful tragedy, presented in a new version...

What is A View From The Bridge about?

In Brooklyn, Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.

Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives...

Antigone Summary

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 the gods.

Christopher Ecclesto...

Watch Othello, a play by Shakespeare with National Theatre at Home.

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).

Wh...

Stream JM Barrie's play Peter Pan in theatre with National Theatre at Home.

All children, except one, grow up...

JM Barrie’s spellbindingly, classic tale Peter Pan takes flight.

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return,...

Watch Romeo and Juliet the play online with National Theatre at Home.

What is Romeo and Juliet about?

Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.

This bold film brings to life th...

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...

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 populist politicians tell the people what they want ...

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...

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 title role.

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Stream Much Ado About Nothing online with National Theatre at Home.

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

What is Much Ado About Nothing about?

The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Ital...

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 National Theatre's Twelfth Night with National Theatre at Home.

Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

What is Twelfth Night about?

A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to sur...

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 ...

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...