Making a Killing by Ben Kernow

Running time 
2 hours
Venue 
Auditorium
Ticket prices 
£17 Full Price
£15 Concession
£10 Under 18s
*subject to booking fees (except at theatre box office)
Suitable for ages 14+ (Contains mature content)
Apr 2026 14 Tue 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm)
Apr 2026 15 Wed 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm)
sold out

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.

The ropes are ready, the crowd is waiting, and the hangman has a new apprentice. 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.