The Playboy of the Western World

This is a National Theatre Live screening at the Historic Asolo Theater, not a staged production: The Playboy of the Western World as filmed at the National Theatre in London under director Caitríona McLaughlin. J.M. Synge's comedy set off riots at its 1907 Abbey Theatre premiere, and its premise still has teeth. A young man walks into a County Mayo pub claiming to have killed his father, and the locals make him a hero for it. Nicola Coughlan and Siobhán McSweeney, both of "Derry Girls," are reunited here alongside Éanna Hardwicke.