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Making a Killing - the hangman and his apprentice at The Albany

  • Writer: ann-evans
    ann-evans
  • Oct 7
  • 1 min read
Making a Killing at The Albany Theatre.
Making a Killing at The Albany Theatre.

Making a Killing by Ben Kernow, inspired by the diary of Frantz Schmitd, at the Albany Theatre, Coventry from Thursday 16 October - Saturday 18 October 2025.

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The ropes are ready, the crowd is waiting, and the hangman has a new apprentice. When Claus Kohler is apprenticed to Frantz Schmidt, Nuremberg’s seasoned executioner, the 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.


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 Franz 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.


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