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Nye

Nye

18 Jul 2025 - 16 Aug 2025

Michael Sheen (Under Milk Wood) reprises his role as Nye Bevan following a sell-out run. Tim Price’s (The Internet is Serious Business) celebration of the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state is ‘vividly directed’ (★★★★ Times) by Rufus Norris (Small Island).
Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

17 Nov 2025 - 21 Feb 2026

In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way?
Dear England

Dear England

4 Nov 2025 - 7 Mar 2026

It’s time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. The England men’s team has the worst track record for penalties in the world, and manager Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land. From multi award-winning writer James Graham (Sherwood, BBC) and director Rupert Goold (Patriots, Cold War), this five-star ‘new stage epic’ (Telegraph) tells the uplifting, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring story of Gareth Southgate’s revolutionary tenure as England manager, in a 'gripping' (The Times) examination of nation and game. A co-production with JAS Theatricals. Casting to be announced.
Bacchae

Bacchae

13 Sept 2025 - 1 Nov 2025

This ain’t no classic play btches. The Bacchae aren’t standing on the sidelines whilst the men have all the fun. These fangirls may be a pack but they’re not animals… They are stage-storming powerhouses ready to cause chaos in Thebes. Whilst the Bacchae maraud in the mountains, their god Dionysos is taking part in his own f^cked-up family Olympics. He’s here to bring down his cousin King Pentheus. All to prove to the chorus of women that he’s more than just the god of rhyme, wine and a good time. Indhu Rubasingham (The Father and the Assassin) begins her tenure as National Theatre Director by bringing Nima Taleghani’s (Heartstopper) exciting new version of Euripides’ ultimate tragedy to life through rhythm, movement and music. FOR ASSISTED PERFORMANCES AND PEOPLE WITH ACCESS REQUIREMENTS, PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY THROUGH THE NATIONAL THEATRE.

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