Making a Killing

28th April - 2nd May

Tickets from £19.50


Running time approx 2 hours 10 minutes


Age guidance: 12+


Content warnings: Contains strong language, includes explicit descriptions of violence and execution.


Production warnings: Haze

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Tuesday 28th Apr7:30 pm
Wednesday 29th Apr7:30 pm
Thursday 30th Apr2:30 pm7:30 pm
Friday 1st May7:30 pm
Saturday 2nd May2:30 pm7:30 pm

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The ropes are ready, the crowd is waiting, and the hangman has a new apprentice. When Claus Kohler is apprenticed to Frantz Schmidt, Nuremberg’s seasoned executioner, the two men are thrown together in a world where duty, morality, and power collide, and every decision leaves a mark. But as the gallows fill and suspicion takes root, their fates become dangerously entwined, until both must decide who they are, and which side of the rope they stand on.

Performed by just two actors, Making a Killing is a razor-sharp, dark comedy about justice, corruption, and the cost of survival in a world disturbingly like our own. Bold, biting, and impossible to ignore, the play takes inspiration from The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573–1617. A remarkable historical record that lays bare the humanity and contradictions of a man who killed for a living.

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