NT Talks

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.

Stephen Boxer (Gloucester), Sam Troughton (Edmund) and Tom Brooke (Edgar) talk 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 2014.

As part of the National Theatre's 2012 production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Errol John, this is a recording of a Platform event celebrating the island's rich cultural heritage with readings, poetry, prose and song. This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2012.

In the first event of the Platform series Kate Fleetwood (Goneril), Anna Maxwell Martin (Regan) and Olivia Vinall (Cordelia) discuss their characters, working with Sam Mendes and their first experiences of King Lear.

The director and designer of The Light Princess discuss working on this new musical by Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson, which features a main character who floats on stage, a troupe of puppeteers and ambitious staging. The chair for this event is Rachel Cooke. This is a recording of a live Platform event from January 2014.

Michael Blakemore talks to Michael Frayn (playwright) about his book 'Stage Blood', reflecting on his work at the Old Vic (directing The National Health, The Front Page and the 1971 production of Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier) and his relationships with the Artistic Directors of the time, Olivier and Peter Hall.

Derek Jacobi talks to Al Senter about 'As Luck Would Have It', a book where he reflects on his career and life including working in the Old Vic alongside Laurence Olivier in the first years of the National Theatre.

The writer and director talk about this new version of Erich Kästner's story, adapting it for the Olivier Theatre and working with three casts of child actors. This is a recording of a live Platform event from December 2013.

Joe Hill-Gibbins talks about directing Edward II, Christopher Marlowe and working in the National Theatre Studio. This is a recording of a live Platform event from September 2013.

Ian Hislop takes a satirical look back at the people and events of 2013 with special guests Craig Brown, Harry Enfield, Lewis Macleod, Jan Ravens and John Sessions. This is a recording of a live Platform event from December 2013.

The Actresses’ Franchise League was founded in 1908 as ‘a bond of union between all women in the Theatrical profession who are in sympathy with the Woman’s Franchise Movement’. With discussion, and extracts from Edwardian Suffrage plays, this event celebrated and reflect on the role of theatre in the fight for Votes for Women.

Director and writer Lucy Kerbel discusses her new book, which sets out to dispel the myth that there aren’t any good plays for women. Chaired by Kate Mosse.

Simon Godwin talks about directing Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill and making his National Theatre debut.

Anne-Marie Duff talks to Al Senter about her acting career, her roles at the National Theatre and starring in the 2013 production of Eugene O'Neill's Stranger Interlude.

Alan Bennett reads the introduction to the playscript of People as well as a poem by Philip Larkin, entitled The Explosion. This is a recording of a live Platform event from November 2012.