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Small Island production image with Hortense (Leah Harvey) sitting on a plain bench with company members standing in a line across the stage in the backgrond

National Theatre Collection

The National Theatre Collection makes the best of British Theatre available worldwide to libraries, schools, universities and the wider education sector. Free to UK state schools.

 

The Collection is available on Bloomsbury’s award-winning digital library Drama Online and as a stand-alone resource from renowned EdTech leader ProQuest. The National Theatre Collection is also available in ProQuest's popular Theatre and Drama Premium package.

We are adding new productions to the NT Collection! 20 new titles will be added by the end of February 2022, bringing the total number of productions to 50. As a UK state school no re-registration is necessary and the new titles will be added to your subscription automatically. Paid users will need to top-up their subscription to access the new titles.

All of our recordings include captions.

If you have any other questions or feedback, please contact us at [email protected].

 

 

SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, King Lear (Donmar Warehouse), Hamlet, Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (adapted for younger audiences) and The Winter's Tale (adapted for younger audiences)

GREEK THEATRE

Medea and Antigone

COMEDIES

One Man, Two Guvnors, She Stoops to Conquer and London Assurance

EUROPEAN CLASSICS

Hedda Gabler, Yerma (Young Vic), The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Julie, The Deep Blue Sea and Translations

AMERICAN CLASSICS

A View from the Bridge (Young Vic), A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Young Vic), All My Sons (Old Vic) and Les Blancs

ADAPTATIONS OF NOVELS AND CHILDREN’S STORIES

Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Treasure Island, Peter Pan and Small Island and I Want My Hat Back

NEW WRITING

This House, Barber Shop Chronicles, Consent, Dara and wonder.land

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More info

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Our continuing campaign to raise vital funds

The National Theatre Collection is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Fondation Hoffmann, Sidney E. Frank Foundation, The Attwood Education Foundation, The Candide Trust, The Cranshaw Corporation for Mrs. Robert I. MacDonald, Graham and Joanna Barker, The Borrows Charitable Trust, Barbara G. Fleischman, Linda Hackett and members of the NT Collection Syndicate. 

Production photo of Small Island by Brinkhoff-Moegenburg