National Theatre: What's on

Katie Mitchell talks to Matt Trueman about her new production of Sarah Kane’s play, Cleansed. #ntCleansed http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/cleansed

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. #MaRaineysBlackBottom

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 #ntAsYouLikeIt

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 #wonderdotland

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 #ntHusbandsandSons

Roger Michell discusses his new production of Harley Granville Barker’s play with Michael Billington. #ntWaste

Ben Power discusses his adaptation of DH Lawrence’s trilogy with the director Marianne Elliott. This is a recording of a live platform event. #ntHusbandsandSons www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/husbands-sons

Director Dominic Cooke talks to Fiona Mountford about Caryl Churchill’s new play. #ntHereWeGo http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/here-we-go

Director Ian Rickson and writer/actor Wallace Shawn discuss the play, Evening at the Talk House. #EveningattheTalkHouse 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 #ntJaneEyre This is a recording of a live platform event.

#ntJaneEyre Booking now: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/jane-eyre This acclaimed re-imagining of Brontë's masterpiece was first staged by Bristol Old Vic last year, when the story was performed over two evenings. Director Sally Cookson now brings her celebrated production to the National, presented as a single, exhilarating performance.

#ntAsYouLikeIt Booking now: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/as-you-like-it Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years.

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 #OurCountrysGood

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 #ntPomona

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

Patrick Marber, Amanda Drew, Mark Gatiss, Royce Pierreson, Cherrelle Skeete and John Simm talk about the summer setting, Turgenev's inspiration on Chekhov and unrequited love in this short film for Three Days in the Country. Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/three-days-in-the-country #ThreeDaysintheCountry

Summer love. A passionate comedy. A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will learn lessons in love: first love and forbidden love, maternal love and platonic love, ridiculous love and last love. The love left unsaid and the love which must out. Find out more and book tickets: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/three-days-in-the-country #ThreeDaysintheCountry

The actor reflects on the challenges and rewards of playing the title role in Everyman. Chaired by Mark Lawson. #ntEveryman www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/everyman

The director talks about his new version of Turgenev’s play, Three Days in the Country. Chaired by Rachel Cooke. #ThreeDaysintheCountry http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/three-days-in-the-country

Playing until 20 August. Book now: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-motherfker-with-the-hat Things are looking up for Jackie. He’s out of jail and staying clean thanks to his sponsor. He might even have found a job. And of course there’s Veronica, who he’s loved since 8th grade. Nothing could come between them – except a hat. Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play received six Tony nominations on Broadway. Poetic, profane and hilarious, this whip-smart look at love and addiction finds light even in the darkest corners of New York City. Directed by Indhu Rubasingham (Handbagged, Red Velvet).

A new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice in Wonderland, by Damon Albarn and Moira Buffini.Welcome to wonder.land, where you can be exactly who you want to be. Manchester International Festival and National Theatre co-production. Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, National Theatre and the Théâtre du Châtelet. Tickets from £15, find out more and book: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/wonder.land

Playing until 30 August. Book now: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/everyman Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. Chiwetel Ejiofor takes the title role.

Playing until 20 September in the Olivier Theatre. Book at http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-beaux-stratagem The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teeming variety of human obstacles: a crooked landlord, a fearsome highwayman, a fervent French Count, a maid on the make, a drunken husband, a furious butler, a natural healer and a strange, turbulent priest. But their greatest obstacle is love. When the Beaux meet their match in Dorinda and Mrs Sullen they are most at risk, for in love they might be truly discovered.

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 #TheRedLion

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.

Director Simon Godwin and the cast of The Beaux Stratagem discuss staging the carnal comedy of love and money. The Beaux Stratagem plays from 19 May in the Olivier Theatre.

Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma and director Simon Godwin discuss the importance of including the third act of Shaw’s Man and Superman.

Members of the Light Shining Community Company recite an extract from the Putney Debates, which features in Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the legacy it left behind. Find out more: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/light-shining-in-buckinghamshire #ntLightShining

Ed Hall has made over 500 banners, his most celebrated for trade union and campaigns. The National Theatre commissioned Ed to create a banner for the Light Shining in Buckinghamshire poster, which depicts England at a crossroads after the aftermath of a bloody and brutal civil war. Now playing. Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/light-shining-in-buckinghamshire

The director and writer discuss the new production, Rules for Living, with Rachel Cooke.

Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.  #ManandSuperman http://www.ntlive.com

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

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery. Playing until 8 April 2015. Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island For exclusive content around the National Theatre production check out our Digital Programme for iPad: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/digitalprogrammes

Dara - A family at war. An empire in the balance. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess. Two brothers, whose mother’s death inspired the Taj Mahal, are heirs to this Muslim empire. Now they fight ferociously for succession. Find out more and book tickets for this spectacular and thrilling historical drama: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/dara

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

It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. This winter, Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery. Not one of us must breathe a word of what we’ve found... Suitable for 10yrs+ Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/treasure-island

Director Rufus Norris and actress Meera Syal discuss Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a new play by David Hare based on the book by Katherine Boo. Find out more and book tickets here: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/behind-the-beautiful-forevers

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. World after world is erected and torn down around them. The one constant is the ivy-clad house in Zagreb, built by aristocrats, partitioned, owned by all, owned by a few; witness to four increasingly educated and independent generations of women. Against a country in turmoil, Tena Štivičić’s 3 Winters creates the portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. Find out more and book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/3-winters

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

Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale. Find out more about Annawadi and the production in this documentary. Find out more about Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/behind-the-beautiful-forevers

Lover. Criminal. Father. Arsonist. Graduate. Charmer. Survivor. JOHN is a powerful new verbatim work by DV8 Physical Theatre follows the extraordinary life story of one man. John. £15 Travelex Tickets available for every performance: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/john #DV8John

Fresh from taking New York by storm, this revolutionary musical experience by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim arrives at the National Theatre for a strictly limited run. Book tickets: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/here-lies-love