Following
a sell-out run at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Olivier and Academy Award®
winner Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan, In Bruges)
returns to the West End with Matthew Dunster’s award-winning production of his
deeply funny new play Hangmen, broadcast live to cinemas by National
Theatre Live.
In his small pub in
the northern English town of Oldham, Harry (David Morrissey – The Walking
Dead, State of Play) is something of a local celebrity. But what's the
second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging?
Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to
hear Harry’s reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd (Andy
Nyman – Peaky Blinders, Death at a Funeral) and the
peculiar Mooney (Johnny Flynn – Clouds of Sils Maria) lurk with
very different motives for their visit.