National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World

Name: National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
Duration: 2 h 30 min

2hr 30m

3.4/5 (215)

2hr 30m
3.4/5 (215)

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… More Details »

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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”

32 Likes

dani wilson

May 28, 2026

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

25 Likes

David J Bradley

May 28, 2026

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

24 Likes

mezzamezza16
May 28, 2026

The Irish girlies were so horny for patricide

21 Likes

Kyran Wood

May 28, 2026

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

17 Likes

beckitbeckit

Jun 27, 2026

syntax I didn't even know possible

10 Likes

limbo
Jul 5, 2026

Watched in my local cinema on a huge screen This filmed stage production, about Irish folk set in the early 1900s in County Mayo, western Ireland, is in English—sort of. It's more like an Irish dialect of English, but it isn't Irish. Nevertheless, it isn't easy to follow,…

5 Likes

Komyathy @the RKO-Chester📽

May 28, 2026

Christ but I'm thinking that was grand.

13 Likes

Darren

Jun 25, 2026

What a strange, hypnotic & poetic play. And how lucky we are that the National Theatre of London still mounts productions as pure as this, honouring the Hiberno-English dialect of Synge’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century Irish play without watering it down to make it more…

8 Likes

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