National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World (2026)
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...
- Released
- 2026-05-28
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Caitriona McLaughlin
Cast
- Nicola Coughlan as Pegeen Mike
- Éanna Hardwicke as Christy Mahon
- Siobhán McSweeney as Widow Quin
- Declan Conlon as Old Mahon
- Lorcan Cranitch as Michael Flaherty
- Megan Cusack as Susan Brady
- Naoise Dunbar as Jimmy Farrell
- Matthew Forrest as Philly Cullen
- Sallay Garnett as Nelly
- Fionnuala Gygax as Honor Blake
- Erin Hennessey as Fiddle
- Peter Mooney as Banjo / Ensemble