Episodes
The director talks to Fiona Mountford about his new production of Farquhar’s comedy, The Beaux’ Stratagem.
Published 06/24/15
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and director Indhu Rubasingham discuss this new production of The Motherf**ker with the Hat with Paul Gambaccini.
Published 06/19/15
The choreographer and director discuss their new production of Everyman with Bonnie Greer.
Published 06/04/15
With Light Shining in Buckinghamshire playing at the National, we present an examination of events in England in the 1640s and more recent parallels and resonances.
Find out more about Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/light-shining-in-buckinghamshire
This podcast features historian Diane Purkiss (author of The English Civil War: A People's History) and political activist John Rees (co-author of A People's History of London).
Chaired...
Published 05/29/15
Director Simon Godwin and the cast of The Beaux Stratagem discuss staging the carnal comedy of love and money.
The Beaux Stratagem plays from 19 May in the Olivier Theatre.
Published 05/15/15
Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma and director Simon Godwin discuss the importance of including the third act of Shaw’s Man and Superman.
Published 05/15/15
Members of the Light Shining Community Company recite an extract from the Putney Debates, which features in Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the legacy it left behind.
Find out more: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/light-shining-in-buckinghamshire
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Published 04/23/15
Ed Hall has made over 500 banners, his most celebrated for trade union and campaigns.
The National Theatre commissioned Ed to create a banner for the Light Shining in Buckinghamshire poster, which depicts England at a crossroads after the aftermath of a bloody and brutal civil war.
Now playing. Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/light-shining-in-buckinghamshire
Published 04/20/15
The director and writer discuss the new production, Rules for Living, with Rachel Cooke.
Published 04/17/15
Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.
Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary.
Tanner, appalled by the whiff of...
Published 04/16/15
The director and adapter talk about their production of Dara.
Find out more about Dara: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/dara
Published 03/30/15
Keith Ansell-Pearson (Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University) and Michael Holroyd (biographer of Bernard Shaw) discuss the Nietzschean concept of the ‘übermensch’ and its influence on Shaw’s writing.
Find out more about Man and Superman: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/man-and-superman
Published 03/25/15
The director and writer discuss the new play, The Hard Problem.
Find out more about The Hard Problem: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-hard-problem
Published 03/10/15
The director talks about his new production of Man and Superman and the challenges of staging Bernard Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.
Published 03/03/15
Armand Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Imperial College London, talks about some of the themes surrounding Tom Stoppard’s new play, The Hard Problem.
Published 03/03/15
The former Poet Laureate looks at the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose Treasure Island inspired his own sequels, The New World and Silver.
Chaired by James Naughtie.
Treasure Island is playing at the National Theatre until 8 April: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island
Published 02/11/15
Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Playing until 8 April 2015. Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island
For exclusive content around the National Theatre production check out our Digital Programme for iPad: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/digitalprogrammes
Published 02/03/15
Dara - A family at war. An empire in the balance.
1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess. Two brothers, whose mother’s death inspired the Taj Mahal, are heirs to this Muslim empire. Now they fight ferociously for succession.
Find out more and book tickets for this spectacular and thrilling historical drama: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/dara
Published 02/03/15
Director Polly Findlay and playwright Bryony Lavery discuss their new version of R L Stevenson's adventure story with Fiona Mountford.
Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island
Published 01/21/15
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins.
This winter, Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Not one of us must breathe a word of what we’ve found...
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Published 01/07/15
Director Rufus Norris and actress Meera Syal discuss Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a new play by David Hare based on the book by Katherine Boo.
Find out more and book tickets here: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/behind-the-beautiful-forevers
Published 01/06/15
From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945–2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love.
World after world is erected and torn down around them. The one constant is the ivy-clad house in Zagreb, built by aristocrats, partitioned, owned by all, owned by a few; witness to four increasingly educated and independent generations of women.
Against a country in turmoil, Tena Štivičić’s 3 Winters creates the portrait of an eclectic family, held...
Published 01/06/15
From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945–2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. Tena Štivičić talks to Susannah Tresilian about 3 Winters, her new play for the National Theatre directed by Howard Davies. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/3-winters #3Winters
Published 12/10/14
Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale. Find out more about Annawadi and the production in this documentary.
Find out more about Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/behind-the-beautiful-forevers
Published 11/14/14
Lover. Criminal. Father. Arsonist. Graduate. Charmer. Survivor.
JOHN is a powerful new verbatim work by DV8 Physical Theatre follows the extraordinary life story of one man. John.
£15 Travelex Tickets available for every performance: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/john
#DV8John
Published 11/09/14
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