Hangmen, Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning comedy, opened on Broadway Thursday, April 21.
HANGMEN has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards:
Best Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play – David Threlfall
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play – Alfie Allen
Lighting Design in a Play – Joshua Carr
Scenic Design in a Play – Anna Fleischle
The Tony’s will air Monday, June 13th.
In his small pub in the North of England in the mid-1960s, 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, people are dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news when an intriguing stranger, Mooney, from London – with a very different wardrobe and motive – enters their world. Says Mooney, “Don’t worry. I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. Or am I? One for the courts to discuss.”
The Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company production of Hangmen is directed by Matthew Dunster. Matthew is an Olivier-nominated director, a playwright and actor. His directing credits include: True West (The Vaudiville, West End); Oedipus (Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo), Hangmen, Liberian Girl (Royal Court), The Seagull, A Midsummer Night’s (Open Air Regent’s Park), Love’s Sacrifice (RSC), The Lightning Child, Arthur Darvill and Doctor Faustus (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Love Girl & the Innocent, You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse), Mametz (National Theatre Wales), Before the Party (Almeida), A Sacred Flame (English Touring), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Royal Exchange Manchester), Mogadishu (Royal Exchange Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith), The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal & Derngate, Northampton).