A night of boozy revelations … Keith Fleming, Mary Gapinski and Brian Vernel in The Long Drop.Photograph: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan (Photograph: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan) On the bare brick wall backing Jen McGinley’s set – half courtroom, half saloon – there is a faded poster of The Searchers, John Ford’s 1956 western. The whisky-swilling hard men who haunt the clubs and dives of The Long Drop may well see themselves as cowboys.