NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE performances are recorded live in HD and surround sound and brought to cinema screens around the world through New York-based BY Experience. Individual advanced tickets available

General Admission : $20
Senior (62+), Youth (17-), Student (w/ valid ID) : $16

NO UPCOMING 2012 SHOWS SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME

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2011's SCHEDULE:

One Man, Two Guvnors

Sunday, October 02 @ 2:00p
Thursday, October 06 @ 7:00p
Sunday, October 09 @ 2:00p

by Richard Bean
based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
with songs by Grant Olding.

James Corden returns to the National for the first time since The History Boys to play Francis.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.
Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.

"The feelgood hit of the summer. An evening of riotous delight… I found myself physically incapable with laughter." Daily Telegraph

For more information on this production, click here.

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The Kitchen

Thursday, October 27 @ 7:00p
Sunday, October 30 @ 2:00p
Thursday, November 10 @ 7:00p
Sunday, November 13 @ 2:00p

1950s London. In the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, the orders are piling up: a post-war feast of soup, fish, cutlets, omelettes and fruit flans.

Fifteen hundred customers an' half of them eating fish. I had to start work on a Friday.
Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe -- English, Irish, German, Jewish -- argue and flirt as they race to keep up. Peter, a high-spirited young cook, seems to thrive on the pressure. In between preparing dishes, he manages to strike up an affair with married waitress Monique, the whole time dreaming of a better life. But in the all-consuming clamour of the kitchen, nothing is far from the brink of collapse.

We all said we wouldn't last the day, but tell me - what is there a man can't get used to?
Arnold Wesker's extraordinary play premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries. THE KITCHEN puts the workplace centre stage in a blackly funny and furious examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are. Directed by Bijan Sheibani (an NT Associate Director).

THE KITCHEN features an ensemble of 30 people and is set in a kitchen, using real food and with actors actually cooking and preparing food on stage -- it is a tour de force spectacle and has been frequently performed all throughout Europe since its first appearance.

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