Strong Female Leads

Strong Female Leads

Browse our collection of strong female leads. From plays written by women to strong female characters, this collection celebrates the strength, depth and richness of female voices in theatre. Start streaming now.

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Strong Female Leads
  • Chewing Gum Dreams
    Movie + 7 extras

    Chewing Gum Dreams

    Movie + 7 extras

    Watch Chewing Gum Dreams with National Theatre at Home.

    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 Trac...

  • Three Sisters
    Movie + 9 extras

    Three Sisters

    Movie + 9 extras

    Watch Chekhov's play Three Sisters with National Theatre at Home.

    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 brin...

  • Julie
    Movie + 10 extras

    Julie

    Movie + 10 extras

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

    Wild and single, Julie throws a huge party in her luxurious London house which rapidly descends into a fight for her own survival.

    Vanessa Kirby plays Julie in Polly Stenham’s shocking and fiercely relevant new version of...

  • Yerma
    Movie + 13 extras

    Yerma

    Movie + 13 extras

    Stream Yerma with Billie Piper with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    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 stagger...

  • People, Places & Things

    Movie + 10 extras

    Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only wa...

  • 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...

  • The Seagull
    Movie + 10 extras

    The Seagull

    Movie + 10 extras

    Watch Emilia Clarke in the play The Seagull, with National Theatre at Home.

    Emilia Clarke ( Game of Thrones ) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.

    What is The Seagull about?

    A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A...

  • Hedda Gabler
    Movie + 10 extras

    Hedda Gabler

    Movie + 10 extras

    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...

  • Phèdre
    Movie + 10 extras

    Phèdre

    Movie + 10 extras

    Stream Phedre with National Theatre at Home.

    Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson, and believing her absent husband is dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare.

    Helen Mirren plays the title role in this acclaimed production of the c...

  • All About Eve
    Movie + 10 extras

    All About Eve

    Movie + 10 extras

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    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...

  • 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...

  • Death of England :Closing Time

    Movie + 10 extras

    There are two sides to every story.

    Grieving the loss of the family shop with their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives’ mistakes.

    The Death of England cast includes Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Erin Doherty playing Denise and Car...

  • 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 ...

  • The Wife of Willesden
    Movie + 10 extras

    The Wife of Willesden

    Movie + 10 extras

    Stream The Wife of Willesden play with National Theatre at Home.

    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 gi...

  • Ugly Lies the Bone
    Movie + 11 extras

    Ugly Lies the Bone

    Movie + 11 extras

    Watch Ugly Lies The Bone online with National Theatre at Home.

    ‘Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.’

    After three tours in Afghanistan, Jess finally returns to Florida. In a small town on the Space Coast, as the final shuttle is abo...

  • Antony & Cleopatra
    Movie + 10 extras

    Antony & Cleopatra

    Movie + 10 extras

    Watch the National Theatre play, Antony and Cleopatra with a theatre subscription from 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, Hansard, Macbet...

  • Medea
    Movie + 11 extras

    Medea

    Movie + 11 extras

    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...

  • Salomé
    Movie + 8 extras

    Salomé

    Movie + 8 extras

    Stream Salomé with National Theatre at Home.

    What is Salomé about?

    An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl ...

  • Kerry Jackson
    Movie + 11 extras

    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...