Imelda Staunton bustled brilliantly through Gypsy and Shaw's Superman soared. But it's a celebrity hangman who tops our theatre critic's pick of this year's best showsMartin McDonagh's play, his first in London in over a decade, haunts me still. Its ostensible theme was the aftermath of the abolition of hanging in 1965. But behind that lay a whole series of questions. How do professional executioners overcome the ins…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM on December 14, 2015