Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
by Frank McGuinness

An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are taken hostage by unseen Arabs in Beirut in 1989. They find themselves chained up together in a filthy cell and are simultaneously powerless, angry, terrified and bored. So how do they survive?

The play - heartrendingly compassionate, tenderly tragic but also uproariously funny - explores their daily crisis and man’s inhumanity to man, how in the midst of the horror they find strength from communication, humour and faith and how they deal with the very real prospect of going insane.

Twenty years on, with hostages still languishing in the Middle East, Frank McGuinness’s life-enhancing play has a timeless relevance and resonance.

Directed by Alan Clark.

Saturday May 23, 7.30pm, Falkirk Town Hall

Tickets - £7 and £5 - from the Tryst Box Office on 01324 715886.