Acting

Acting requires a wide range of skills, vocal, physical, imaginative, expressive, intellectual, intuitive, and work can demand different dialects, languages, accents, vocal control or body language, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and often dancing or stage combat. A stage actor will often be required to research around a character or a period of history. In an ever changing world it is a continually evolving profession. This collection aims to give an insight into what it is like to be an actor at the National Theatre.

Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing

Simon Russell Beale and Zoë Wanamaker talk about playing Beatrice and Benedick in the 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Antony Sher in conversation

Antony Sher talks about his career and his role in Travelling Light in this Platform event from 2012.

Antigone: Haemon and Antigone

This film looks at the relationship between Antigone and Haemon.

Antigone: Creon and Antigone

This film looks at the relationship between the two main characters in Antigone.

John Lithgow in conversation

John Lithgow talks to Nicholas Hytner about his career and his current role in The Magistrate.

Simon Russell Beale in conversation

Simon Russell Beale talks about his career including his role in Timon of Athens.

Una Stubbs in conversation

Una Stubbs talks about her fifty-year career in film, television and on stage.

Working on the Spectrum: The Making of Curious Incident and the Dog in the Night-Time

The creative team talk about bringing the novel to the stage in this short documentary for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Christopher Eccleston in conversation

Christopher Eccleston talks to Al Senter about his stage, film and television career as well as his role in the National Theatre's 2012 production of Antigone.

Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory in conversation

Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory talk about their acting careers and their roles in The Last of the Haussmans.

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