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An award winning film written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

All Is True looks at the final days in the life of renowned poet and playwrite William Shakespeare, played by Kenneth Branagh himself.  Judi Dench supports as Anne Hathaway and Ian Mckellen is Henry Wriothesely.

An award winning film written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

All Is True looks at the final days in the life of renowned poet and playwrite William Shakespeare, played by Kenneth Branagh himself.  Judi Dench supports as Anne Hathaway and Ian Mckellen is Henry Wriothesely.

An award winning film written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

All Is True looks at the final days in the life of renowned poet and playwrite William Shakespeare, played by Kenneth Branagh himself.  Judi Dench supports as Anne Hathaway and Ian Mckellen is Henry Wriothesely.

An award winning film written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

All Is True looks at the final days in the life of renowned poet and playwrite William Shakespeare, played by Kenneth Branagh himself.  Judi Dench supports as Anne Hathaway and Ian Mckellen is Henry Wriothesely.

An award winning film written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

All Is True looks at the final days in the life of renowned poet and playwrite William Shakespeare, played by Kenneth Branagh himself.  Judi Dench supports as Anne Hathaway and Ian Mckellen is Henry Wriothesely.

An award winning film written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

All Is True looks at the final days in the life of renowned poet and playwrite William Shakespeare, played by Kenneth Branagh himself.  Judi Dench supports as Anne Hathaway and Ian Mckellen is Henry Wriothesely.

Adapted and directed for the stage by Ivo van Hove

Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here WeGo Again) lead in All About Eve, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London.

All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve...don’t you...?

Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world's most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove (Network, NT Live: A View from the Bridge), asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old.

All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L Mankiewicz and the play “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr. Ivo van Hove directs this new stage version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D’Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner P J Harvey, alongside Tom Gibbons’ sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.

Photographs: Gillian Anderson by Pari Dukovic and Lily James by Perou. Design: Bob King Creative.

Come into the forest: dare to change your state of mind.

Rosalind is banished, wrestling with her heart and her head.  With her cousin by her side, she journeys to a world of exile where barriers are broken down and all can discover their deeper selves.

Director Kimberley Sykes (Dido, Queen of Carthage) directs a riotous, exhilarating version of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy.

A Panto for the Easter Holidays!

A show from Riverbank Productions telling the story of Dr John Doolittle MD whose parrot, Polynesia teaches him how to speak to animals!

Of course, this enables him to become a first-class animal doctor. One day a monkey from Africa arrives and asks him if he can journey to his homeland to cure a colony of monkeys from a dreadful disease. So, accompanied by his trusty friends, Dab-Dab the duck, Gub Gub the pig, Too Too the owl and Jip the dog, Dr Doolittle embarks on an unforgettable journey to Africa and the adventure begins. Some of the animals in the production are played by puppets and others by the actors. As well as all the animals and the doctor himself, you may expect to meet such characters as Princess Bumpo, some swarthy pirates and a short-sighted horse! Featuring new songs, especially composed for the show plus sing-along favourites, humour and lots of joining in.

Dr Doolittle is the ideal show for all the family and particularly for children aged 5 to 10.

Two new one-act plays set during World War I by Stuart Fortey

Directed by Joe Harmston

The Kaiser and I

Berlin, 1914.    Europe stands on the brink of war. In the Kaiser's palace his English dance instructor puts her pupils through their paces. On the western front his generals await their orders.                                Let the dancing begin.... 

Mae Ewrop ar fin mynd i ryfel. Mae meistres dawnsio'r Caiser yn aros am ei disgybl.                     Gadewch i'r dawnsio ddechrau....

On Scarborough Front

Scarborough, 1917    A young Wilfred Owen recovers from serious injuries sustained in the trenches. There he comes face to face with Lieutenant-Colonel Gray, facing his own unspeakable demons far from the trenches.

Mae swyddog ifanc, Wilfred Owen, yn gwella o glwyfau mewn gwesty yn Scarborough. Yno, mae'n cwrdd a'r Lieutenant- Colonel Gray, uwch swyddog sy'n wynebu ewyllysiau ei hun.

Original music by Andrew Griffiths

Choreography by Lissa Williams

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.

Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House, People, Places & Things) directs a cast including Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin). All My Sons is an Old Vic co-production with Headlong

In a reimagined 1590, England is a matriarchy. Baptista Minola is seeking to sell off her son Katherine to the highest bidder. Cue an explosive battle of the sexes in this electrically charged love story. Justin Audibert (Snow in Midsummer, The Jew of Malta) returns Shakespeare's fierce, energitic comedy of gender and materialism on its head to offer a fresh perspective on its portrayal of heirarchy and power.

                                        

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation (adaptation by Helen Edmundson). Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.

The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in this timely and moving story.

"To whom should I complain?"

When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. When she threatens to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her. Shakespeare wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains astonishingly resonant today.

Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, directs this new production.