15 February 2024
Ten more outstanding National Theatre productions have gone live on Drama Online today, which completes National Theatre Collection 3 with its 20 filmed performances. This latest set of filmed performances are available exclusively on the Drama Online platform. Watch the collection trailer.
These films take the number of National Theatre productions available to watch on Drama Online to 70.
Titles launched today are:
- As You Like It: Disguising herself as a boy, Rosalind embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love with Orlando in Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change.
- Dixon and Daughters: Mary has just been released from prison. Over a tumultuous two days, her family is forced to confront not just their past but themselves in this powerful story of family and forgiveness.
- The Great Wave: On a Japanese beach, teenager Hanako is lost to the sea. Their mother, however, can’t shake the feeling her missing daughter is still alive, and soon family tragedy takes on a global political dimension.
- Hamlet: Hamlet’s dad is dead. His uncle has taken over the kingdom and married Hamlet’s mum. The whole world feels like it’s turned upside down. This energetic and engaging schools production retells Shakespeare’s tragedy.
- Hex: Rufus Norris directs this vividly original musical retelling of the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale with music by Jim Fortune, and choreography by Jade Hackett.
- Jack Absolute Flies Again: Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’s play is based on Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals, and stars Caroline Quentin, Laurie Davidson, Natalie Simpson and Kelvin Fletcher
- Othello: Directed by Clint Dyer with Giles Terera in the title role and Rosy McEwen as Desdemona.
- Romeo and Julie: Romeo is a single dad hanging on tight. Julie is fighting to follow her dream of studying at Cambridge. Two Welsh teens raised a few streets apart – but from entirely different worlds – crash into first love and are knocked off their feet.
- Trouble in Mind: In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression. On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented Black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by two white men.
- Under Milk Wood: The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in terror of her guests. A father who can no longer access his memories. Michael Sheen stars in Dylan Thomas’ poetic masterpiece.
- The Wife of Willesden: Critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, best-selling author Zadie Smith’s play transports Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath to 21st Century North West London.
These latest National Theatre titles are available exclusively on the Drama Online platform, further cementing Bloomsbury’s partnership with the renowned National Theatre. Drama Online occupies a pre-eminent place in the educational market for theatre and literary studies, underpinned by the wealth of content from Bloomsbury’s prestigious Arden Shakespeare and Methuen Drama lists as well as existing partnerships with world-leading theatre producers from the National Theatre to the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications from the world’s leading drama publisher with filmed live performances, film adaptations and audio plays.