See the guide below for more details of how to book.
If you're booking for multiple productions and require glasses for each performance in your booking, you'll need to add glasses for each performance you've booked.
Smart caption glasses are generally available for performances on, or shortly after the Press Night for each show.
Watch our instructional video to find out how to use the glasses.
Yes you can. Smart caption glasses are adjustable and fit over your glasses.
No, you don't have to book for a captioned peformance. Smart glasses can be booked for any performance listed via the booking links at the bottom of this page.
Please come to Box Office of the theatre for which you have tickets - Lyttelton Theatre Box Office is in the main entrance pavilion, Olivier Theatre Box Office is on the Stalls floor on Level 2, Dorfman Theatre Box Office is in the Dorfman foyer. When you arrive, staff will be able to assist with picking up your glasses for the performance. Glasses will be available to collect up to 30 minutes before the start of the performance. If possible, drop coats and bags in the cloakroom before collecting your glasses.
For booking enquiries email the Box Office on boxoffice@nationaltheatre.org.uk or call 020 7452 3961.
For Access information email access@nationaltheatre.org.uk or call 020 7452 3284.
For all other enquiries email smartglasses@nationaltheatre.org.uk.
A guide to buying tickets and getting smart caption glasses
If you already have tickets for any of these shows, you can also book smart caption glasses by calling the Box Office on 020 7452 3961.
Writer and comedian Francesca Martinez leads an ensemble cast in her debut play, directed by Ian Rickson (Translations).
Rafe Spall performs this fearless one-person play which asks explosive and enduring questions about identity, race and class in Britain.
Thea Sharrock (After The Dance) directs a riotous new comedy based on Sheridan’s The Rivals, co-written by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris.
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Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical masterwork explores the nature of friendship, and the ways people are capable of hurting even those they love.
Based on the celebrated novels by Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend is an epic story of love, violence, ambition and self-destruction
A modern myth from the brilliant imagination of Neil Gaiman, recommended for 12yrs+
Inua Ellams relocates Chekhov’s iconic characters to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.
Following a sold-out run in 2018, Ian Rickson’s exquisite production of Brian Friel's masterpiece returns.
Lesley Manville and Hugo Weaving are former lovers in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, transported into mid-20th-century America by Tony Kushner
Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder.
