In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they abolish hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit.

A pitch-black Olivier Award-winning comedy from the master of darkness, Martin McDonagh, the multi-award-winning writer of plays The Pillowman, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and The Lieutenant of Innishmore, and the films The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

"A sly throat-gripping mystery" The New York Times

"Tremendous, terrifying" The Observer