MARTIN MCDONAGH: Thrilled, actually ... DEADLINE: The real last hangman in the UK – I did some research – was named Harry Allen. Did you use his story at all in creating your character ...

Hangmen is on at The Place Theatre from 24-28th June.

Naturally all of Oldham, Northern England, wants to know what Harry, the second-best hangman in the country ... For much of the past decade, McDonagh, after earlier successes like The Cripple ...

Playwright Martin McDonagh clears the path with crisp ... a short-tempered man in love with his own voice and the second-best hangman in the country after Albert Pierrepoint (Jim O’Brien ...

Martin McDonagh’s disdain for the medium in which ... Several months later, former hangman Harry (Denis Conway) is pulling pints in an Oldham pub: the death penalty has been abolished and ...

Hangmen, Martin McDonagh’s play from 2015 ... England’s second-best hangman, who’s about to hang up his noose with the outlawing of capital punishment. The play opens with a literal gallows ...

basking in the luxury of customers wanting to see and shake hands with a hangman. Years of lurid Fleet Street accounts of crimes and punishments which the 52-year-old McDonagh grew up on have ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Martin McDonagh recently discussed The Banshees of Inisherin with Taylor Swift. The singer told the writer ...