CRITICS have rated a forthcoming live screening at Dorset cinemas as five star.

The Independent described Hangmen as ‘drop dead hilarious’.

For The Daily Telegraph, Martin McDonagh’s return to the West End is ‘the most line-by-line funny show London has seen in years’.

Anyone who wants to enjoy such a critically acclaimed production has the chance at the Plaza Cinema on March 3.

The venue will be showing its latest NT Live performance at 7pm.

Hangmen will also be showing on the same date and time at Cineworld Weymouth, Odeon Dorchester

Hangmen is Olivier and Academy Award winner McDonagh’s first play in ten years after his successes with The Cripple of Inishmaan and In Bruges.

It takes the subject of capital punishment and finds plenty of dark humour in its abolition.

The end of hanging is anything but good news for professional hangmen. For the second best in the country, it is a disaster.

Former apprentice hangman Harry (played by David Morrissey – The Walking Dead, State of Play) has become a pub owner in Oldham and something of a local celebrity.

The day hanging is abolished sees him surrounded by cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear his reaction to the news.

But his old assistant Syd (Andy Nyman – Peaky Blinders, Death at a Funeral) and the peculiar Mooney (Johnny Flynn – Clouds of Sils Maria) lurk with very different motives for their visit.

Cinema managing director Adam Cunard said: “We look forward to welcoming our regular customers to another of our popular NT Live screenings.

“They enable residents in the area to see some of the best West End productions on their doorsteps.”