Making a Killing @ The Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Schedule
Fri May 08 2026 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Castle Street, PL1 2NJ Plymouth, United Kingdom | Plymouth, EN
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Making a Killing by Ben KernowThe 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 Frantz 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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Castle Street, PL1 2NJ Plymouth, United Kingdom, 38 Castle Street, Plymouth, PL1 2NJ, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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