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National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World

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Synopsis

Pegeen Flaherty's world shifts when Christy Mahon enters her pub claiming he killed his father. Rather than being rejected, he becomes a hero, winning hearts and races-until another man unexpectedly appears.

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3.4
  • May 28, 2026

    “so I says to meself I says I, Christy Mahon, this is no day for a do”

    24 Likes
    dani wilson
    dani wilson
    May 28, 2026

    The more incoherent the dad's accent got the more I enjoyed myself

    21 Likes
    David J Bradley
    David J Bradley
    May 28, 2026

    Old Mahon rose more times from the dead than bloody jesus Christ what a legend

    19 Likes
    mezzamezza16
    mezzamezza16
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    May 28, 2026

    The Irish girlies were so horny for patricide

    16 Likes
    Kyran Wood
    Kyran Wood
    May 28, 2026

    if i had hair like nicola coughlan's you'd never hear the end of it

    13 Likes
    beckitbeckit
    beckitbeckit
    May 28, 2026

    Christ but I'm thinking that was grand.

    11 Likes
    Darren
    Darren
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    May 28, 2026

    Confused but not about my love for Nicola coughlan

    8 Likes
    anni3banani
    anni3banani
    Jun 21, 2026

    Fury and desperation is a storm of Irish poetry. It’s cut from the same cloth as A Doll’s House or Summer of the Seventeenth Doll or August: Osage County, a domestic drama of enormous scale that speaks beyond the walls of its enclosed setting and turns vernacular into…

    2 Likes
    Daniel Lammin
    Daniel Lammin
    May 28, 2026

    Nice little bit of Culchie shakespeare

    7 Likes
    Daryl
    Daryl
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Frequently Asked Questions

How long is National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World?
The movie is 2hr 30min long.
What's National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World about?
Pegeen Flaherty's world shifts when Christy Mahon enters her pub claiming he killed his father. Rather than being rejected, he becomes a hero, winning hearts and races-until another man unexpectedly appears.