Watch national theatre live: king lear Fmovies. An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
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The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an ide...
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Two young progressive people live together in the early 1960s. Their lives revolve around political activities, anti-nuclear actions, love, travel, mu...
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Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Sha...
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Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gi...
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A new version for younger audiences by Bijan Sheibani and Ben Power. Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for younger audi...
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Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...
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A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian...
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Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert C...
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Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them a...
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A long-simmering animosity between two families of Verona, the Montague's and the Capulet's, has recently boiled over, with members of the rival house...
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Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas. Over a tumultuous two days a fami...
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An updated version of Strindberg’s play examining class and social differences. Julie, the daughter of an MP, seduces her father's chauffeur, despite...
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After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister,...
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In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do...
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Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of ind...