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National Theatre Live presents The Playboy Of The Western World Friday 12 Jun 2026 Performance Time: 19:30 Box Office: Tickets on sale soon Tickets: £15 (£13 Members) NT Live brings the best of British theatre to your cinema screen. Each production gives you the best seats in the house by filming theatre in front of a live audience to make you feel like you are there! The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge and starring Nicola Coughlan, Eanna Hardwicke and Siobhan McSweeney. 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, Caitriona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

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