Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

...de la Star Pheonix:

Two men are chained up in a dungeon and, no, it's not the horror movie Saw.

But that nastiness does flash through your mind at the start of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, the 1992 play by Irish writer Frank McGuinness. Brian Cochrane directs as part of the Live Five guest company Skinny Walrus...

...The characters are a tad stereotypical -- the brassy Yank, the formal Brit, the fiery Irishman. But the script does reveal enough about their personal lives, whether it's childhood torment or survivor's guilt, to turn them into individuals. The play's careful illustration of the Irish-English conflict would hit U.K. audiences much harder. Still, Edward's outrage when Michael calls the Irish language a "dialect," is revealing...