Someone Who'll Watch over Me is a play written by
Irish dramatist
Frank McGuinness. The play focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an
Englishman and an
American (Edward, Michael, and Adam) who are kidnapped and held
hostage by unseen Arabs in
Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival they also strive to overcome their personal and
nationalistic differences. Related to this is each individual's own attempt to maintain sanity under the watchful eye of both captors and supposed
comrades. At times the dramatic
dialogue reaches a level of
Beckettinian absurdity, as even the
audience is unable to draw a distinction between the characters'
insanity and humour. We are made witness and accomplice to a
humour based on something apparently ghastly, the loss of rationality.