National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World (2026)

0.0/10 • 157 min • Drama Comedy

Overview

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...

Cast

Nicola Coughlan

Pegeen Mike

Éanna Hardwicke

Christy Mahon

Siobhán McSweeney

Widow Quin

Declan Conlon

Old Mahon

Lorcan Cranitch

Michael Flaherty

Megan Cusack

Susan Brady

Naoise Dunbar

Jimmy Farrell

Matthew Forrest

Philly Cullen

Sallay Garnett

Nelly

Fionnuala Gygax

Honor Blake

Erin Hennessey

Fiddle

Peter Mooney

Banjo / Ensemble

Donncha O'Dea

Ensemble

Marty Rea

Shawn Keogh

Susan Akintomide

Ensemble

Martha Breen

Sara Tansey

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