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One cell. Three men. Three nationalities.
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me was a smash hit on The
West End and Broadway in 1992 with Stephen Rea, and then in
a 2005 revival starring Johnny Lee Miller.
This highly acclaimed play was inspired by McGuinness’
conversations with Brian Keenan, who in 1986 was abducted on
his way to work at the American University of Beirut. Keenan
was kept in underground cells and denied all contact with
the outside world until his release four and a half years
later.
Someone Who’ll watch Over Me is the heartrendingly
compassionate and tenderly tragic story of Keenan and two
fellow captives held hostage together in a small cell.
Powerless to escape, the characters survive by resorting to
elaborate flights of fancy and games of the imagination,
using their humour to rescue each other from the brink of
insanity. |
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