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  • Blood and Gifts

    Blood and Gifts

    In the Lyttelton Theatre. 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan and toward the critical Pakistani border, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try and halt its bloody progress.
    Sep 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 >

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  • Earthquakes in London

    Earthquakes in London

    In the Cottesloe Theatre. An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett’s epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again.
    Sep 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11 >

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  • War Horse in the West End

    War Horse in the West End

    The National Theatre's smash hit is now playing at the New London Theatre in Drury Lane.
    Sep 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11 >

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  • Danton’s Death

    Danton’s Death

    In the Olivier Theatre. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton’s Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written.
    Sep 06, 07, 08, 09, 14, 15 >

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  • The Habit of Art

    The Habit of Art

    In the Lyttelton Theatre. Alan Bennett’s new play imagines a meeting between Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, and his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.
    Sep 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

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  • Or You Could Kiss Me

    Or You Could Kiss Me

    In the Cottesloe Theatre. Neil Bartlett returns to the National in collaboration with the War Horse team of Handspring Puppet Company and designer Rae Smith to create this fierce and tender meditation on love, memory and the power of the unspoken.
    Sep 28, 29, 30, Oct 01, 02, 04, 05 >

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  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

    Travelex £10 Tickets in the Olivier Theatre. Following his celebrated performances at the National in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet.
    Sep 30, Oct 01, 02, 04, 05, 06, 07 >

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Platforms

  • J T Rogers on Blood and Gifts

    The playwright talks about his new play, set in a country facing an emerging war – Afghanistan in 1981.
    Sep 15

  • The Art of Revolution

    This extended Platform is an opportunity to discover how The French Revolution of 1789 has inspired artists, writers and composers.
    Sep 18

  • John Simpson

    John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, focuses on the way the British press has reported key moments in history in his book Unreliable Sources.
    Sep 23

Free Music

Free Exhibitions

  • The Press Photographer's Year 2010

    The only competition that showcases the outstanding photography commissioned for and used in the UK media
    Sep 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 >

  • SE1 9PX: Hidden Corners, National Theatre

    The public areas of the National Theatre occupy no more than a third of the total site - Miriam Nabarro has sought out the NT's secret spaces and presents them in an exhibition of photographs that will surprise and intrigue.
    Sep 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 >

  • A London Bestiary

    Photographer Ianthe Ruthven has beautifully captured the creatures of the city in an exhibition that pays tribute to the imagination and humour of generations of architects and sculptors.
    Sep 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 >

  • Ralph Koltai – Stage 2 Metal Collage 2002 – 2010

    Ralph Koltai is Britain’s senior and celebrated Theatre Designer. He has embarked on a new challenge, returning to his roots as a 3-dimensional artist, creating a series of metal collages, mostly made from found objects on farms near his studio in France.
    Sep 27, 28, 29, 30, Oct 01, 02, 04 >

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