National Theatre Live: Playboy of the Western World

A man shares a dark secret and becomes a hero. And then everything changes again.

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) 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.

Tickets £17 standard, £12.50 under 26.

**NEW** Tickets for Isbourne Arts members are £14 standard, £9.50 under 26.

Screening will include sub-titles

Our new membership gives each member £3 off every NT Live Screening at Isbourne Arts. Membership £18 per year. Membership runs for one year from June 1 2026.

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