Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

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Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is a theatrical production by Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. The play itself focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an Englishman and an American (Edward, Michael, and Adam) who are kidnapped and held hostage by unseen Arabs in Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival they also strive to overcome their personal and nationalistic differences. Tantamount to this is each individual's own attempt to maintain sanity under the watchful eye of both captors and supposed comrades. Betimes the dramatic dialogue reaches a level of Beckettinian absurdity, as even the audience are unable to draw a distinction between the characters insanity and humour. We are made witness and accomplice to a humour based on something apparently ghastly, the loss of rationality. The play was first staged in 1992, at the Hampstead Theatre[1], London.