Watch National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World (2026) Online Free
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...
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Nicola Coughlan, Éanna Hardwicke, Siobhán McSweeney, Declan Conlon, Lorcan Cranitch, Megan Cusack, Naoise Dunbar, Matthew Forrest, Sallay Garnett, Fionnuala Gygax, Erin Hennessey, Peter Mooney
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