“If you’d’ve just tried to relax, you could’ve been dead by now,” the hangman’s assistant, Syd Armfield (Reece Shearsmith, who really knows how to deliver McDonagh’s nasty bon mots ...

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

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 ...

"This is our fifth production of Martin McDonagh's work since 2007 ... the second-best hangman in the country, has to say about it. As the news breaks, Harry's pub is overrun with a motley ...

Martin McDonagh is the rare storyteller celebrated ... especially acute to him over the last two years. His 2015 play, “Hangman,” was originally supposed to reach Broadway in early 2020 ...

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 ...

Just how does Martin McDonagh manage to coax a chortle from ... the watering hole to get a good quote or two from former hangman, Harry (R.W. Smith). He runs it with his wife Alice (Cristy Landis ...