Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, is a theatrical production by Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. The play itself focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an English man and an American. Compounding on this, is the fact that they are being held hostage in a Lebanese jail. As the three men strive for survival they also strive to overcome their personal and nationalistic differences. Tantamount to this is each individual's own attempt to maintain sanity under the watchful eye of both jailer and supposed comrade. Betimes the dramatic dialogue reaches a level of Beckettinian absurdity, as even the audience are unable to draw a distinction between the characters insanity and humour. We are made witness to and accomplice to a humour based on something apparently ghastly, the loss of rationality. The play was first staged in 1992, at the Hampstead Theatre[1], London. Frank McGuinness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: English, english The language of English started in Europe and came to the US with the British immigrants. ... A hostage is a person (sometimes another entity) which is held by a captor (often a criminal abductor) in order to compel another party (relative, employer, government. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... Comrade is a term meaning friend, colleague, or ally. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... It has been suggested that Sanity be merged into this article or section. ... Humour (humor in American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ...