National Theatre Live: The Playboy Of The Western World
<div><b>This screening will have a 15-minute long intermission.</b><b></b></div><b><div><b><br></b></div>Screening as part of <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/national-theatre-live/">National Theatre Live</a>.</b> <div><br></div><div>Nicola Coughlan (<i>Bridgerton</i>, <i>Derry Girls</i>) joins Éanna Hardwicke (<i>Saipan</i>, <i>The Sixth Commandment</i>) and Siobhán McSweeney (<i>Derry Girls</i>) 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, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.</div>PT2H37M12A2026-05-28