Hangmen, Royal Court, theatre review: Play about the last public executioners in Britain is a flawless treat
True, you might want to think twice before declaring that this play about the last public hangmen in Britain is "drop-dead hilarious" or "perfectly executed". But that's a pretty exact description both of the blackly comic brilliance of Martin McDonagh's writing in the piece (which marks his long-awaited return to the Royal Court) and of the sterling virtues of Matthew Dunster's consummately well-cast and performed p…