U6 practical exams:
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
By Frank McGuiness
Date: December 2006
Venue: Memorial Hall
Like Waiting for Godot, this is essentially a play about men trying to kill time. In a series of short scenes that could be taking place over a span of weeks, months or more likely years, we watch the three hostages, in their grim breeze-block cell where an electric light bulb always burns, attempting to conquer their boredom and fear.
They do this is in a variety of ways - by teasing and tormenting each other, often to the point of cruelty, by raging against their captors, by telling jokes and remembering poems, by thinking of loved ones living and dead, and in particular of their fathers, the memory of whom haunts all three.
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