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Fri 10 Oct 2009Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
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McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Meis an imaginative depiction of life in captivity and how the human spirit manages to prevail. The hostages in this play are deliberately national emblems: an Irishman, Edward; an Englishman, Michael; and an American, Adam. The friction generated by three men shackled to the wall in a windowless basement is as much personal as cultural, with Edward and Michael reviving their national antipathy through a double- act of often-comic acrimony.
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