Perhaps the most line-by-line funny play seen in years.
This was the best Barn production I have ever reviewed.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
‘I’m just as good as bloody Pierrepoint’!
In his small pub in Oldham, Harry 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 sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit.
Edgy and thought-provoking black comedy from the author of The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. As the noose is abolished in 1960s England, the country’s second-best hangman, now running a neighbourhood pub, reflects on his life and profession with both regulars and a mysterious stranger.
Hangmen premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in September 2015 and transferred to Wyndham’s Theatre, London in December that year. It received the 2016 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
Thanks go to Craig at A.S. Handover Ltd and David Pullen for their help with the mahogany woodwork finish and The Chequers Inn of Wareside and HDOS Hertford for the loan of some bar paraphernalia.
A special thank you goes to Danny Swanson and Keith Thompson for stepping in to cover roles after sudden cast illness.
This was the best Barn production I have ever reviewed.
…pitch-perfect…this look back in sharp-eyed wonder at the grimmer side of the swinging Sixties doesn’t loosen its grip from start to finish. It’s perhaps the most line-by-line funny play London has seen in years
A flawless treat…The immaculate ingenuity and off-beam symmetry of the plotting, is a thing of wonder.
McDonagh is the funniest and cruellest voice of his generation
Martin McDonagh has not invented black comedy but is certainly perfecting it!
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