#high-noon

#high-noon

As a piece of theatre, it finds its flow. As a debate play, though, it gathers a locomotive energy as it travels towards the showdown between Frank Miller (James Doherty), who is returning to this dirty little village in the middle of nowhere, and the marshal Will Kane (Crudup) who put him behind bars. That is mostly because of the uncanny and urgent relevance of this 1952 film about a community working out (or rather, squirming out of) its civic responsibilities around institutional wrongdoing.

Irish actor Denise Gough is one of the most acclaimed stage performers of her generation, most famously for her monumental breakthrough role as a recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan's People, Places and Things. The role propelled her to screen success, most notably with Tony Gilroy's Andor, in which her role as a cold-blooded, ultimately out of her depth imperial intelligence officer brought her to global notice.