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Hangmen

Author: Carole Baynes

Information

Date
22nd September 2023
Society
Pump House Theatre Company
Venue
Pump House Theatre, Local Board Road, Watford
Type of Production
Play
Director
Guy Peskin
Written By
Martin McDonagh

Hangmen (written by Martin McDonagh famous for his screen play "Banshees of Innisherin") is a black comedy about the second best hangman in England -Harry Wade - and his life after the abolition of hanging in the mid 1960s. Wade is now a pub-landlord and the action takes place inside this pub. With the regulars happily exchanging humorous stories and comic banter a stranger enters the pub and brings with him an air of foreboding. This slick, strangly funny play had moments of almost slapstick comedy - well performed with perfect timing and some brilliant character studies were in evidence. 

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