Plays about love: Celebrate connection this Valentine's Day

Plays about love: Celebrate connection this Valentine's Day

'Love is Love is Love is Love'

This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating love in all its forms. Whether it’s the electrifying spark of romance, the enduring power of family and friendship, or the quiet journey of self-love, our curated collection of plays about love explores connections that defy boundaries and redefine what it means to love.

What to watch on Valentine’s Day
Looking for the perfect way to spend Valentine’s Day? From the timeless passion of Romeo and Juliet to the tender connections in Constellations, our collection of romantic plays will warm your heart. If you're celebrating the occasion with your partner and searching for the perfect date night idea, we’ve got something to make your evening unforgettable.

Galentine’s Day – Celebrate friendship
Valentine’s Day isn’t just for couples! Gather your friends and celebrate the power of friendship with plays that showcase the beauty of connection. Waitress, with its heartwarming portrayal of love and support, is perfect for a night of laughs and feel-good moments with your mates.

Love in all its forms
Love is never one-size-fits-all. With moving family dynamics in Dear Octopus and beautifully diverse stories like Till the Stars Come Down, our collection highlights the many ways we care for one another.

These stories shine a light on the diversity of human connection - bold, tender, messy, and beautiful, a collection that invites everyone to see themselves reflected lovingly on stage. This year, celebrate love in all its forms on National Theatre at Home, where love truly is for everyone.

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Plays about love: Celebrate connection this Valentine's Day
  • Mosquitoes
    Movie + 10 extras

    Mosquitoes

    Movie + 10 extras

    Watch National Theatre's play Mosquitoes, with National Theatre at Home.

    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...

  • Constellations - Omari Douglas & Russell Tovey

    Movie + 10 extras

    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey.

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They ...

  • Romeo & Juliet
    Movie + 10 extras

    Romeo & Juliet

    Movie + 10 extras

    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...

  • Jane Eyre
    Movie + 10 extras

    Jane Eyre

    Movie + 10 extras

    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 ...

  • All of Us
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    All of Us

    Movie + 10 extras

    Stream All of Us, a play by National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

    Jess has a great life: a job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When austerity threatens the world she has worked hard to build, Jess makes a stand to protect those she holds most dear.

    ...

  • Constellations - Peter Capaldi & Zoë Wanamaker

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    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker.

    Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a b...

  • Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

    Movie + 9 extras

    America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnected lives grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.

    The Angels in America cast includes Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Denise Gough and Russell To...

  • Underdog: The Other Other Brontë

    Movie + 12 extras

    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… Anne.

    This is not a story about well-behaved women.

    This is a story ab...

  • The Effect
    Movie + 13 extras

    The Effect

    Movie + 13 extras

    Watch The Effect, a play by National Theatre with our theatre streaming service.

    Watch the unmissable Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) and Taylor Russell (Bones and All) as part of The Effect cast in this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics. Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Ber...

  • Blues for an Alabama Sky

    Movie + 10 extras

    Stream The National Theatre play Blues for an Alabama Sky with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    ‘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....

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Movie + 11 extras

    What is A Midsummer Night's Dream about?

    Deep in the magical forest a feuding King and Queen cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors, resulting in tempestuous love triangles, contagious fogs and moonlight revels, surrounded by a roving audience following the action on foot.

    ...

  • Hex
    Movie + 11 extras

    Hex

    Movie + 11 extras

    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 and her blessing becomes a curse.

    Soon, she ...

  • The Grapes of Wrath
    Movie + 12 extras

    The Grapes of Wrath

    Movie + 12 extras

    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 hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to huma...

  • Kerry Jackson
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    Kerry Jackson

    Movie + 11 extras

    Stream the National Theatre play Kerry Jackson with National Theatre at Home.

    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 t...

  • Nye
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    Nye

    Movie + 10 extras

    From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister.

    Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back t...

  • Present Laughter
    Movie + 11 extras

    Present Laughter

    Movie + 11 extras

    As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwin...

  • The Little Big Things
    Movie + 13 extras

    The Little Big Things

    Movie + 13 extras

    Stream The Little Big Things musical online with National Theatre at Home.

    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 Time...

  • Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

    Movie + 11 extras

    Watch Andrew Garfield in the play Angels in America part two with National Theatre at Home.

    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, ...

  • Constellations - Anna Maxwell Martin & Chris O'Dowd

    Movie + 10 extras

    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O'Dowd.

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. ...

  • Constellations - Sheila Atim & Ivanno Jeremiah

    Movie + 10 extras

    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah.

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They ...

  • Dear Octopus
    Movie + 11 extras

    Dear Octopus

    Movie + 11 extras

    Stream Dodie Smith's iconic play Dear Octopus with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    The family, from whose tentacles we can never quite escape.

    What is Dear Octopus about?

    When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles ...

  • Our Generation
    Movie + 10 extras

    Our Generation

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    Watch Our Generation the play with National Theatre at Home.

    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 anyo...

  • Twelfth Night
    Movie + 10 extras

    Twelfth Night

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    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...

  • Jack Absolute Flies Again

    Movie + 11 extras

    Stream Jack Absolute Flies Again with National Theatre at Home.

    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...