Some folk are impossible to buy for. Mama said it's because they are usually the ones who are impossible to know…Before is set in Clerys of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store shuts -
Meet Jamie, Sadhbh and Collette: three best friends on a wild night out in Dublin. By the end of the night, Collette will be dead. Can you save her? The Friday Night Effect combines compelling new wri
- Do you have to hold your breath? ... Can you do that?- Yeah. Anyone can.- Not me. Can't be doing without breath. I'd hate to drown. I'm a big fan of air ... I'd rather drown in my own troubles.Accor
These two plays - by acclaimed playwright Terry Johnson - tell the inspiring, endearing and sometimes alarming stories of an Oscar-winning cinematographer and an aspiring playwright who receives a cha
Common is a dark and disturbing journey into the carnivalesque world of early-Industrial Britain, exploring the personal and public traumas in the period of the enclosure. Written with verve and wit b
The sea took my house and not yours, everything's different for me.Rising sea levels are threatening the ground beneath her house, but Ruby is distracted. She wants one final blowout before her best f
Performed as a one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between prison guard Tracey and criminal Siobhan as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate. As they both muse on their lives ou
A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn't always on their side. Sally's a happy person. She doesn't let little things get her down and almost never cries. But she's got an illness. It mak
Is morality just what the majority say? Is that all it is? If I don't vote, I'm not part of that discussion. Rob Drummond returns to the National with a new show about democracy. The Majority charts R
A prolific playwright in the US, Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi explores, through his dramatic work, the immigrant experience. Addressing the personal, political and social encounters o
Close To The Enemy is a six-part television series, mostly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War.The drama follows intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson wh
I bit into your heart and I chewed on it slowly like a connoisseur. I swallowed it. I remember thinking it was an especially small heart and easy to digest. But no matter what I did you wouldn't die.
It's three o'clock when the first ambulance arrives. An old Polish man who can't breathe properly. I see the paramedics try to get him on the stretcher, but he collapses on them. Sudden heart failure.
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together
Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams.His family
“Land beneath our feet. Got all our blood inside it hasn't it? All that time. Belongs to us.”On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky and Anna try to hold their family together after the deat
I can't forget her...sometimes, thinking about everything I have to live up to, trying to be this new person, its too much. The only way I can make sense of it all is the thought that somewhere down t
