Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
By Frank McGuinness
Directed by Andrew Flynn
Wed 7 - Fri 16 Nov 8pm
Sat 10 Nov 2.30pm
Tickets £9 (preview Wed 7 & Sat mat) & £14 (concession £11)
Read the Irish News review here
Diarmuid de Faoite, Rod Goodall, Paul Roe
Inspired by the Brian Keenan story, SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME is a heartrendingly compassionate, tenderly tragic but also uproariously funny play. Chained to a wall in horrific conditions, captives in a foreign land: an Irishman, an Englishman and an American overcome their cross-national tensions to form a close friendship under the appalling strain of captivity. This is a play that charts man's instinct to survive, since the survival of the three is built on their efforts to continue to experience emotion. Guilt, love, anger and loneliness and all the gamut of feelings that makes us, break us, are dramatised through laughter, pain and love.
The setting is so unlikely and unattractive: how will three human beings react? Probably one of McGuinness' greatest plays, the writing is expertly understated and colossally emotive themes are purged of all affectation. What remains is an essentially human drama. Crammed with compassion, the characters are realisticall imperfect but still imbued with so much sympathy that it is impossible not to be enthralled by them.
"the audience are so invested in the drama that they readily gasp, laugh and cry"
IrishTheatre Magazine
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