“Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me” opens this Thursday…

Appearing in Island Stage Left's spring play, from left: Jeff Allen, Dan Mayes, and Pierce Erik Gratton.

Island Stage Left presents its spring play Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me at the San Juan County Fairgrounds.

The show opens April 5th and closes April 29th, 2012: Thursdays through Saturdays @ 7:30pm, Sundays @ 4pm.

The play, written by award winning Irish playwright and poet Frank McGuinness, is about an Englishman, an Irishman and an American who are taken hostage in Lebanon. Stripped of their own clothes, belongings and contact with the outside world, they must rely on humor, imagination and each other to survive.

For all its harrowing subject matter, the play is also blissfully funny. It is about a great deal more than captivity at the hands of an enemy.

It’s also about nationality, faith and its often strained relationship with organized religion, and the amazing capacity of the human spirit to endure, to find love, hope and tenderness in even the most desperate surroundings.

Mature theme not suitable for children under 12. As always, the play is FREE, but donations are appreciated.

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