National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World

28/5 & 31/5; 19:00
Nicola Coughlan joins Éanna Hardwicke and Siobhán McSweeney in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene.
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, this darkly funny tale is full to the brim with secrets