Katie Mitchell talks to Matt Trueman about her new production of Sarah Kane’s play, Cleansed.

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The director discusses his new production of August Wilson’s play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, with Ola Animshawun.

This is a recording of a live platform event.

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Director Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good.

This is a recording of a live platform event.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good
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Director Ned Bennett and playwright Alistair McDowall talk to Dan Rebellato about the production, Pomona.

This is a recording of a live platform event.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/pomona
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The director and writer discuss their new production, People, Places and Things.

This is a recording of a live platform event.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/people-places-and-things
#PeoplePlacesThings

The actor reflects on the challenges and rewards of playing the title role in Everyman.

Chaired by Mark Lawson.

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The director talks about his new version of Turgenev’s play, Three Days in the Country.

Chaired by Rachel Cooke.

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http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/three-days-in-the-country

The writer and director discuss The Red Lion, Patrick Marber's haunting and humorous new play about the dying romance of the great English game.

Find out more about The Red Lion and book tickets: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-red-lion

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The director talks to Fiona Mountford about his new production of Farquhar’s comedy, The Beaux’ Stratagem.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and director Indhu Rubasingham discuss this new production of The Motherf**ker with the Hat with Paul Gambaccini.

The choreographer and director discuss their new production of Everyman with Bonnie Greer.

With Light Shining in Buckinghamshire playing at the National, we present an examination of events in England in the 1640s and more recent parallels and resonances.

Find out more about Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/light-shining-in-buckinghamshire

This podcast features historian Diane Purkiss (author of The English Civil War: A People's History) and political activist John Rees (co-author of A People's History of London).

Chaired by Michael Jacobs.

Rosalie Craig and Patsy Ferran, playing Rosalind and Celia, discuss the roles and the production of As You Like It.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/as-you-like-it
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The director and writer discuss the new production, Rules for Living, with Rachel Cooke.

The director and adapter talk about their production of Dara.

Find out more about Dara: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/dara

Keith Ansell-Pearson (Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University) and Michael Holroyd (biographer of Bernard Shaw) discuss the Nietzschean concept of the ‘übermensch’ and its influence on Shaw’s writing.

Find out more about Man and Superman: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/man-and-superman

The director and writer discuss the new play, The Hard Problem.

Find out more about The Hard Problem: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-hard-problem

The director talks about his new production of Man and Superman and the challenges of staging Bernard Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.

Armand Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Imperial College London, talks about some of the themes surrounding Tom Stoppard’s new play, The Hard Problem.

The former Poet Laureate looks at the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose Treasure Island inspired his own sequels, The New World and Silver.

Chaired by James Naughtie.

Treasure Island is playing at the National Theatre until 8 April: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island

Director Polly Findlay and playwright Bryony Lavery discuss their new version of R L Stevenson's adventure story with Fiona Mountford.

Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island

From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945–2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. Tena Štivičić talks to Susannah Tresilian about 3 Winters, her new play for the National Theatre directed by Howard Davies. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/3-winters #3Winters

Enda Walsh talks to Dan Rebellato about writing and directing Ballyturk.

This is a recording of a live Platform event from September 2014.

In its 150th anniversary year, the story of Alice and her adventures remains relevant and yet of its time.

Grahame Baker-Smith, illustrator of the Royal Mail’s Alice in Wonderland anniversary stamps, Gillian Beer, author of the forthcoming Alice in Space, and Helen Melody, curator of the British Library’s current Alice exhibition, reflect on the many visual interpretations of the character through the years.

Chaired by Nicolette Jones.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/wonder.land
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Adam Penford talks to Mark Shenton about his revival of Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business, working with Nicholas Hytner on One Man, Two Guvnors and his ambitions for the future.

Find out more about A Small Family Business and book tickets: http://bit.ly/1jTeeiZ

Playwright Polly Stenham talks to Emma Freud about her career, her work at at the Royal Court and her new play Hotel playing at the National Theatre.

This is a recording of a live Platform event from June 2014.

Hotel is currently playing until 2 August. Find out more and book tickets here: nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/hotel

Alan Ayckbourn talks to Angus MacKechnie about his career, focusing on his work at the National Theatre whilst Peter Hall was Artistic Director and his recently revived play A Small Family Business.

Find out more about A Small Family Business and book tickets: http://bit.ly/1jTeeiZ

Tony award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang talks to Mark Shenton about Yellow Face, which questions what race really means in our society.

Yellow Face plays until 24 May: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/yellow-face

This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2014.

Simon Russell Beale talks to Mark Leipacher about the National Theatre's current production of King Lear directed by Sam Mendes.

This is a recording of a live Platform event from February 2013.

Alongside the production of Husbands & Sons, an investigation into the labour market in the early 20th century, the opportunities open to both men and women, and how Lawrence’s own experience of work influenced his characters and writing.

With Pamela Cox, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, and presenter of the BBC series, Servants and Shopgirls, and Andrew Harrison, Assistant Professor of English Literature and Director of the DH Lawrence Research Centre at the University of Nottingham.

This is a recording of a live platform event.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/husbands-sons
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Roger Michell discusses his new production of Harley Granville Barker’s play with Michael Billington.

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Ben Power discusses his adaptation of DH Lawrence’s trilogy with the director Marianne Elliott.

This is a recording of a live platform event.

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Director Dominic Cooke talks to Fiona Mountford about Caryl Churchill’s new play.

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Director Ian Rickson and writer/actor Wallace Shawn discuss the play, Evening at the Talk House.

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http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/evening-at-the-talk-house

Charlotte Brontë was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force in her family, and in Jane Eyre she created a new kind of independent heroine.

Her biographer Claire Harman (winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, The Mighty Hudson) and and journalist Lucy Mangan (Stylist and Guardian columnist) explore these very modern Victorian women.

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/jane-eyre
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This is a recording of a live platform event.