Running Time: 2 Hours 40 Minutes (Including a 20 Minute Interval)

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Robert Fox, Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful; Productions and Royal Court Theatre Productions present
The Royal Court Theatre production of
HANGMEN
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Matthew Dunster

About Hangmen

The year is 1965. In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what’s the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they’ve abolished hanging?

Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney lurk with very different motives for their visit.

Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (including a 20 minute interval)

Tonight’s performance is captured live from the Wydnham’s Theatre in London’s West End.

Cast, in alphabetical order

Hennessy Josef Davies
Clegg James Dryden
Mooney Johnny Flynn
Bill Tony Hirst
Albert John Hodgkinson
Shirley Bronwyn James
Harry David Morrissey
SydAndy Nyman
Inspector Fry Craig Parkinson
Charlie Ryan Pope
Alice Sally Rogers
Guard Mark Rose
Arthur Simon Rouse
Understudy Hennessy/Clegg Mitchell Baggot
Understudy Shirley/Alice Clio Davies
Understudy Mooney Josef Davies
Understudy Syd/Charlie/Bill/Inspector Fry Mark Rose
Understudy Harry/Albert/Arthur David Walker

Writer Martin McDonagh
Director Matthew Dunster
Set and Costume Designer Anna Fleishle
Lighting Designer Joshua Carr
Sound Designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph Sound
Casting Director Amy Ball
Assistant Director Roy Alexander Weise
Production Manager Jamie Maisey
Costume Supervisor Laura Hunt
Fight Director Kate Waters
Dialect Coach Zabarjad Salam
Company Stage Manager Heidi Lennard
Deputy Stage Manager Nina Scholar
Assistant Stage Manager Claire Louise Baldwin
Wardrobe Assistant Jessica Hughes
Hair Assistant Zoe Kettel
Dresser Holly O’Neill
Sound Operator Laura Hammond
Please make sure all phones are switched off during the performance

About the Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is the writers’ theatre. For sixty years it has been the leading force in world theatre for energetically cultivating writers – undiscovered, new and established.

Though the writers the Royal Court is the forefront of creating restless, alert, provocative theatre about now, inspiring audiences and influencing future writers. Through the writers the Royal Court strives to constantly reinvent the theatre ecology, creating theatre for everyone. Over 120,000 people visit the Royal Court in Sloane Square, London, each year and many thousands more see our work elsewhere through transfers to the West End and New York, national and international tours, residencies across London and site-specific work. In 2016 the Royal Court is 60 Years New. This year work includes new plays by Caryl Churchill, Anna Jordan, Mongiwejhaya, Alistair McDowall, David Ireland, Stef Smith, Charlene Hames, Anthony Neilson, Natheniel Martello-White and Suzan-Lori Parks.

Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone
Executive Producer Lucy Davies
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