NT Live Encore: The Playboy of the Western World at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Tuesday 9 June 2026
at 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Please note: Info provided by the Event Organiser
About the show
National Theatre Live returns to the Festival Theatre big screen.
At the edge of the earth, you could be anyone
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
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…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.