Theatre - Someone Who'll Watch over Me

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This masterpiece by one of Ireland’s most respected playwrights, Frank McGuinness, was performed in the West End and then on Broadway for over a year where it was named Best Foreign Play (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award).

Three men – an American doctor, an Irish journalist and an English academic – are abducted and held in a windowless cell. With absolutely no contact with the outside world and an uncertain fate, they fight boredom by breaking out into song and laughter, pretend they’re in a flying car and do just about anything to stay sane.

The riveting play is based on the real-life abduction of Irishman, Brian Keenan. Keenan went on to recount his horrific four-and-a-half year ordeal alongside British journalist, John McCarthy, in an autobiographical book, An Evil Cradling (Winner, Irish Times Literary Prize) which was later made into a film.

The Actors Studio’s re-staging is a truly international collaboration featuring Charles Donnelly from the UK, Kingsley Judd from Australia and Gavin Yap from Malaysia – under the direction of Joe Hasham OAM.
Don’t miss one of the most startling pieces of theatre you will ever see!
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