Cinema: The Playboy of the Western World

Cinema: The Playboy of the Western World

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Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) 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, The Abbey's Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

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