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A Bridge to the Stars

A Dream Play

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Handbag

A Handbag (copy)

A Laughing Matter

A Matter of Life and Death

A Midsummer Nights Dream

A Minute Too Late

A Minute Too Late Benefit Performance

A Prayer for Owen Meany

A Slight Ache

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Vampire Story

A Year and a Day

Afterlife

Albert Speer

All My Sons

All My Sons

All's Well That Ends Well

Amato Saltone

An Enemy of the People

Antony and Cleopatra

Anything Goes

Anything Goes at Drury Lane

Arden City

Aristocrats

As You Like It

As You Like It 1967

Attempts on her Life

August: Osage County

Baby Doll

Baby Girl

Baby Girl, DNA, The Miracle

Bacchai

Battle Royal

Bedbug: The Musical

Berlin

Betrayal

Blackout

Blithe Spirit

Blooded

Blue/Orange

Boat Memory

Brassed Off

Broken Hallelujah

BT National Connections (Cottesloe)

BT National Connections (Olivier)

Buried Child

Burn

Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship

Burnt by the Sun

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

Candide

Carbón Club

Caroline, or Change

Chatroom

Chatroom / Citizenship

Citizenship (Glenthorne High School)

Citizenship (National Youth Theatre)

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick

Clockwork

Closer

Closing Time

A tender portrait of the lonely and the alone from the award-winning author of Shoot the Crow.

Cloudstreet

Copenhagen

Coram Boy

Coram Boy 2005

Counting the Ways

1976

Cyrano de Bergerac

Daedalus and Medea

De Profundis

Dead End

Death and the King's Horseman

Democracy

Democracy (Cottesloe)

DeoxyriboNucleic Acid

Dido, Queen of Carthage

Dinner

Primordial Soup is first on the menu ­ let the dinner from hell begin...

Dirty Dirty Princess (copy)

Discontented Winter: House Remix

Doomsday

Dr Faustus

Eclipse (Cottesloe)

Eclipse (Olivier)

Edmond

A fortune-teller’s teasing rumination sends Edmond lurching into New York City’s hellish underworld in this furious, unflinching, whirlwind of a play.

Edmond

Elmina's Kitchen

Business is business, brother

England

England People Very Nice

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 2010

Exiles

Faust

Feather Boy

Finding the Sun / Marriage Play

Fix Up

Flight

Fram

Free

Frozen

by Bryony Lavery, with Anita Dobson, Tom Georgeson & Josie Lawrence

Fugee

Further than the Furthest Thing

Gagarin Way

Garden

Geometry of Miracles

Gethsemane

Guiding Star

Hamlet 1963

First National Theatre production at the Old Vic Theatre, 1963.

Hamlet 1975

1600 - 1601

Hamlet 2000

Hamlet 2001

Hamlyn Week

Happy Days

Happy Days

Happy Now?

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Harper Regan

Headstrong

Henry IV Part 1

Henry IV Part 2

Henry V

Once more unto the breach

Her Naked Skin

He’s Talking

Hinterland

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials Part I

His Dark Materials Part I 2003/04

His Dark Materials Part II

His Dark Materials Part II 2003/04

His Girl Friday

This is a manhunt - not a banquet

Honour

Do you think about me at work?

House

Howard Katz

Humble Boy

Il Campiello

1756

In Extremis & De Profundis

in-i

InterNational Connections

Intolerance, Crime and Punishment

Iphigenia at Aulis

It Snows

Ivanov

Jerry Springer - The Opera

Jitney

John Gabriel Borkman

1896

Jumpers

Jumpers 1976

1972

Just

Just for Show

Ken Campbell's History of Comedy

La Dispute

1744

Landscape and A Slight Ache

Landscape with Weapon

Lessness

The stage premiere of Beckett's extraordinary prose work, Lessness, originally written in French under the title Sans

Liar

Life After Life

Life x 3

Lifegame

Lolita

Look Back in Anger

Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost_DRAFT

Shakespeare's youthful comedy of wit, sophistication and romance.

Lunch In Venice

Luther

Macbeth

Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man?

Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man?

Major Barbara

Mappa Mundi

Mappa Mundi

This intimate play explores the notion of Englishness, and follows the moving journey of a man coming to terms with the parameters of his life.

Market Boy

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure 2002

Measure for Measure 2004

Mnemonic

Money

Monologue

Moonfleece

More Light

Mother Clap's Molly House

Mother Clap's Molly House

Mother Courage and Her Children

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mrs Affleck

Much Ado About Nothing

Mugged

My Face

My Fair Lady

Never So Good

No Man's Land

No Man's Land 1976

1974

Noises Off

Not About Nightingales

NT25 Platforms

Oedipus

Oedipus

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oklahoma!

Olivier: A Celebratory Performance

Olivier: A Celebratory Performance - Live relay to the Lyttelton Theatre

On the Shore of the Wide World

Once in a Lifetime

Oresteia: 2

Othello

Otsoko

Our Lady of Sligo

Pack Up Your Troubles

Pass It On

Passion, Blood and Glory: The Iliad and the story of Medusa

Paul

Peer Gynt, 2000

Based in part on Norwegian folk traditions, Peer Gynt is by turns comic, tragic, lyrical and fantastic.

Pericles

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Peter Pan (1997 production)

Phèdre

Phèdre NT Live Performance 25 June 2009

Philistines (Buy tickets)

Philistines Programme voucher

Pidgin Macbeth

Pillars of the Community

Pinocchio

Puppetry, shadows, illusion and live music all come together in a magical show.

Play Without Words

Play Without Words 2002

On Seduction: Chelsea 1963. Behind the privileged façade of domestic social order lies a struggle for power, territory and sexual domination

Playing With Fire

Plunder

1928

Power

Witty, elegant and strikingly well acted, staged with dazzling clarity... Guardian

Present Laughter

Primo

Private Lives

Rafta, Rafta... (Buy tickets)

Rafta, Rafta... Programme voucher

Red Death Late Nights

Red Sky

Remember This

Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of Things Past

Robin Hood

This musical version of the classic adventure story brings the legend vividly to life.

Rojo (Red)

Romeo and Juliet

Rose

Ruckus in the Garden

Saint Joan

Samurai (Flies on the Wall)

Samurai (Tron Skillshops)

Sanctuary

By the author of The Waiting Room, winner of the John Whiting Award 2000.

Scary Play

Scenes from Family Life

Scenes from the Big Picture

It's a joke that's all

School Journey to the Centre of the Earth

She Stoops to Conquer

Shell Connections (Olivier)

Shell Connections 2003 (Cottesloe)

Shell Connections 2003 (Olivier)

Show and Tell

Shut Up

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (2002)

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads table seating

Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain

Sizwe Banzi is Dead

Sleep With Me

Small Stories Ages 5-7

Small Stories Ages 5-7 (copy)

Snow White

South Pacific

The passionate romance in a South Seas paradise, with the realities of a world at war.

Southwark Fair

Sparkleshark

Statement of Regret

Stovepipe

Stuff Happens

Success

Success (copy)

Summerfolk

Swiniopolis (Pigs)

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Tall Stories Ages 8-11 (copy)

Tamburlaine the Great (Parts I and II)

1976

Tarry Flynn

Tartuffe

Tartuffe, 1976

The Adventures of the Stoneheads

The Alchemist

The Associate

Written by the author of Accomplices, the play provides a richly comic study of politics and wallpapering.

The Birds

The Black Album

The Black Remote

The Book of Everything

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

The Coast of Utopia: Salvage

Salvage, the final part of The Coast of Utopia, which tells an epic story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in the struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.

The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

The second play in a trilogy that follows a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I.

The Coast of Utopia: Voyage

The first play in a trilogy that follows a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I

The Colleen Bawn

The Colour of Justice

The Darker Face of the Earth

The Day I Stood Still

The Diary of One Who Vanished

The Duchess of Malfi

Thou art undone

The Dummy Tree

The Dummy Tree (copy)

The Emperor Jones

The Enchantment

The Eternal Not

The False Servant

The Far Side of the Moon

The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder

The Force of Habit

1974

The Forest

The Good Hope

The Good Woman of Setzuan

The Heights (copy)

The Heiress

The History Boys

The History Boys 2004

The Hothouse

The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other

The House of Bernarda Alba

The Invention of Love

The Island

The Life of Galileo

The London Cuckolds

The Man of Mode

The Man of Mode Programme voucher

The Mandate

The Masque of the Red Death

The Mentalists

Middle-aged fleet manager Ted, hits on a utopian plan to change the way we live in this darkly funny play, from the author of Toast.

The Menu

The Merchant of Venice 1999 - Cottesloe

The Merchant of Venice 1999 - Olivier

The Merchant of Venice 1999 - Olivier

The Mikado, The Odyssey

The Miracle

The Musicians (Cottesloe)

The Musicians (Olivier)

The Nativity

The Night Season

The Observer

The Oresteia: 1

The Overwhelming

The Passion

The Peach Child

The Permanent Way

The Permanent Way (Cottesloe)

The Pillowman

The Pitmen Painters

The Pitmen Painters

The Pitmen Painters

The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World 1975

The PowerBook

A collaboration on Jeanette Winterson’s most recent novel, The PowerBook, exploring the boundaries between fiction and theatre

The President of an Empty Room

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Provok'd Wife

The Ramayana

The Relapse

The Reporter

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Riot

The Rose Tattoo

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

The Seafarer

The Seagull

The Séance (copy)

The Shadow of a Boy

The Shoemaker's Incredible Wife

The Spider Men

The Syringa Tree

The Talking Cure

The Talking Cure

This new play deals with the early years of Jung and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabine Spielrein.

The Tempest

A 90-minute version of The Tempest is part of Shakespeare Unplugged, a nationwide touring project, which includes an introductory event.

The Things She Sees (copy)

The Threepenny Opera

NT Education touring version of Brecht & Weill's version of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera

The Threepenny Ring Cycle

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The UN Inspector

The Villains' Opera

The Voysey Inheritance

The Waiting Room

The Walls

The Walworth Farce

The Willow Pattern

The Winter’s Tale 2001

The Wonder of Sex

The Year of Magical Thinking

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Debate

Thérèse Raquin

Three More Sleepless Nights

Three Sisters

Through the Wire

Time and the Conways

To Be Straight with You

Trammel (copy)

Translations

Tristan & Yseult

Troilus and Cressida

One of the most philosophical works of the 17th-century. A study of human values - is powerfully focused in its central event: the war between the Greeks and Trojans over the abduction of the beautiful, legendary Helen.

Tropicana

Two Thousand Years

Two Thousand Years (Cottesloe)

Vincent in Brixton

War Horse

War Horse

War Horse

War Horse

War of the Worlds, Twilight of the Gods

Watch It Come Down

1976

Waves

Waves 2006

Weapons of Happiness

1976

West End Transfer of The History Boys

West End Transfer of The History Boys

Where I Come From: Scenes From Abroad by Mike Williams

Widower's Houses

Widowers' Houses

Women of Troy

Women of Troy, Love (But I Won't Do That), Paradise Lost

Word Alive!

Word Alive! Storytelling

Word Alive! Storytelling

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