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1) #Sugarwater
Publisher
Broadway Licensing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An all access documentary following the first performance at The National Theatre of a deaf and disabled theatre company.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre—this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors.
The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of London's National Theatre from 2003-2015, he directed and produced...
The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of London's National Theatre from 2003-2015, he directed and produced...
3) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller each play Victor Frankenstein and his creation in these two performances of Danny Boyle's smash hit production of Frankenstein.
5) Les blancs
Author
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Written eleven years after A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's final drama is an unknown masterpiece of the American stage and a highly theatrical search for the soul of post-colonial Africa.
8) Medea
Author
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Helen McCrory takes the title role in Euripides' powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell, with music written by Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp.
Author
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 Tracey in this one-woman play that recalls the last days of innocence before adulthood. Originally developed with the Yard Theatre in association with the Bush Theatre, Chewing Gum Dreams is a one-woman play that recalls...
11) Yerma
Author
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone's radical production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece. The incredible Billie Piper stars in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role.
12) Julie
Author
Publisher
National Theatre Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Age recommendation: 15+ (contains adult themes and drug misuse). Recorded through National Theatre Live on 6th September, 2018. Wild and single, Julie throws a huge party in her luxurious London house, which rapidly descends into a fight for her own survival. Fuelled by social division, August Strindberg's masterpiece Miss Julie remains shocking and fiercely relevant in this new version by Polly Stenham set in contemporary London.
13) Macbeth
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This show was originally staged as part of the National Theatre's Shakespeare for younger audiences programme. This archival recording was captured in 2017. Amid bloody rebellion and the deafening drums of war, Macbeth and his wife will stop at nothing to fulfil their ambition. Witchcraft, murder, treason and treachery are all at play in this murky world. A bold contemporary retelling of one of Shakespeare's darkest plays for younger audiences.
Author
Publisher
National Theatre Collection
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Age recommendation: 12+. This co-production with Fuel Theatre was captured in the Dorfman Theatre on 20th June, 2017. One day. Six cities. A thousand stories. Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles is a...
15) Consent
Publisher
National Theatre Collection
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Age recommendation: 15+ (references to rape) This archive recording was captured on 9th May, 2017. Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged. Nina Raine's powerful, painful, funny play sifts the evidence from every side and puts justice...
Author
Publisher
National Theatre Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recording from the National Theatre Archive, 2015. 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 ... Based on Jon Klassen's children's picture book classic, I Want My Hat Back features music by Arthur Darvill and a book and lyrics by Joel Horwood.
Publisher
National Theatre Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Age recommendation: 12+ This Young Vic production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 16th September, 2014. As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace -- but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. The fastest-selling production in Young Vic's history, Tennessee Williams' timeless masterpiece is brought to life on the modern stage with an outstanding cast...
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This show was originally staged as part of the National Theatre's Shakespeare for younger audiences programme. This archival recording was captured in 2018. Perdita is a brave, intelligent and much-loved girl, but something is not quite right in her world. Join her on a journey through magic and mayhem as she uncovers her story -- the girl who was once lost and then found. This exciting new version of The Winter's Tale is the perfect introduction...
Author
Publisher
Royal National Theatre
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 1st September, 2016. A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer...
20) Hamlet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 9th December, 2010. Director Nicholas Hytner offers a detailed political, social and psychological context to Hamlet's dilemma: whether or not to avenge the death of his father. Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in this dynamic production of Shakespeare's complex and profound play about the human condition. His performance earned him an Evening Standard Award.
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