NICHOLAS HYTNER

THE CHORAL (2026)

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms, Simon Russell Beale, Emily Fairn, Lyndsey Marshal, Thomas Howes and Ron Cook. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr Henry Guthrie – driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.

NT LIVE: STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY (2022)

Starring Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors.

Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: YOUNG MARX (2018)

Starring Rory Kinnear, Nicholas Burns, Oliver Chris, Nancy Carroll, Laura Elphinstone and Miltos Yerolemou. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.

Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.

REVIEWS Young Marx - Presented by National Theatre Live

THE LADY IN THE VAN (2016)

Starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett, Dominic Cooper and James Corden. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.

REVIEWS The Lady In The Van - British filmmaking at its very best

THE CHORAL (2026)

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms, Simon Russell Beale, Emily Fairn, Lyndsey Marshal, Thomas Howes and Ron Cook. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr Henry Guthrie – driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.

THE LADY IN THE VAN (2016)

Starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett, Dominic Cooper and James Corden. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.

REVIEWS The Lady In The Van - British filmmaking at its very best