CONGRATS to Granagh Players on their 10th anniversary production, choosing an Irish icon to mark the occasion. Behan’s ‘The Hostage’ opens for a second long weekend this Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 at 8pm in Granagh Community Centre – accompanied by the bustle of shop and raffle nightly. 8pm show.
Jimmy Sheehan directs the robust cast of 16 in a musical play rarely seen today. From Mary O’Regan, PRO locally, we hear of “a rundown part of Dublin in the 1960s”.
“‘The Hostage’ depicts a rowdy and bizarre group of people living in a house that is part rooming house and part brothel. Transvestites, prostitutes, revolutionaries and other unsavoury characters inhabit the place.
“On this particular evening, in Belfast, the British have captured an 18 year-old IRA member and he is scheduled for hanging the following morning. In retaliation the IRA kidnap a young British soldier and bring him to the house to be held hostage. They hope to use him as a bargaining chip…The fate of the hostage remains unclear right to the very end.”
A tenner in and students €5.
