NT Live: Playboy of the Western World

By: John Millington Synge Directed by: Caitríona McLaughlin Starring: Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment), Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre. In this 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 in this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.