Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic C...
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in dang...
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, ...
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home o...
Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana h...
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of...
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Fo...
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes ...
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richa...
On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him...
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audien...
This absorbing 1976 production of dramatist Sidney Kingsley's historical play centers on the formati...
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job an...
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...
Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped...
Siegfeld Institute of Music Junior High. An educational institution established for the purpose of ...
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man who...
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a...
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curs...