National Theatre’s Misterman Capture to Premiere Online April 11

The production was captured live at the Lyttelton Theatre in 2012 but this will be the first time the filmed capture is being made available for online viewing.

Thanks to NTatHome, audiences will get another chance to watch Cillian Murphy’s extraordinary stage performance in Misterman by Enda Walsh. Produced by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival in 2011, Misterman received critical acclaim when it premiered at GIAF. The play went on tour and also played Off-Broadway's St. Ann’s Warehouse.

Inishfree might seem like a quaint Irish town, but fierce evangelist Thomas Magill knows better. He knows jovial Dwain Flynn is a miserable drunk, that Timmy O’Leary enslaves his lovely mother and that sweet Mrs Cleary is a blasphemous flirt.

It is down to Thomas, with God on his shoulder, to save this sinful place. But the townsfolk are not listening, an angel is misbehaving and a barking dog will not be silenced. Just how far will Thomas go in his quest for salvation?

Misterman​ will be joining the National Theatre's NTatHome streaming library and available worldwide. The play will start streaming on April 11.

The play is directed by Enda Walsh, and designed by Jamie Vartan with lighting design by Adam Silverman and sound design by Gregory Clarke. Donnacha Dennehy composed selections for the piece with Mikel Murfi being the movement director.

In her review for The Guardian, Maddy Costa said: "Misterman is at once a deadly concentration and ambitious expansion of all Enda Walsh's plays to date: a one-man show cacophonous with voices that give Thomas no peace. Some emerge from reel-to-reel tapes: this is consciously a conversation with Samuel Beckett. Some are meticulously voiced by Murphy. One, the angel Edel, is heard only by Thomas; when her voice finally breaks free, its youthful chime is a knife to the heart."