Play Ground

Author: Nancy Netherwood & Sam Webber

A fortnightly theatre bookclub hosted by Nancy Netherwood and Sam Webber. Every other Thursday we take a deep dive into a different play from a range of genres, writers, times and places - join in the conversation over on Instagram @playground_pod
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Misterman by Enda Walsh
Episode 5
Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

Send us a textCillian Murphy somehow remains looking beautiful through this deeply intense and gruelling play - first performed in 1999 by Walsh himself, we very specifically take a look at the revised/updated 2011 version which took the intimate one-person show and blew it up to National Theatre size.We talk the victim mentality, routine as self-expression, and bootleg theatre recordings.Have some feedback? A play you'd like us to cover?Chat to host Nancy @N_Netherwood on variousChat to host Sam @Samwebbercool2 on Instagram (and go find @rootlingtheatre for his puppet antics)