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Directed by: Kerry Cole
Written By: Frank McGuiness


Featuring: Matthew Stephen Tompkins * ..............Adam Jack Foltyn ................................................Edward Kevin Scott Keating * ..............................Michael courtesy of Actors' Equity Production Staff:* Lighting Design: John Leach Costume Design: Barbara C. Cox Stage Manager: Lara Maerz* Dramaturge: Dorothy Sanders *Member of Actors' Equity Association
Performances: Circle Theatre opens Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me - with 7:30pm previews October 24th and 25th . Opening night, featuring post-show champagne, is scheduled for 7:30pm, Friday, October 26th. (There will not be a Saturday matinee on October 27th .) The play runs through November 17th. For tickets or information, call 817-877-3040 (1:00pm - 5:00pm, Tuesday - Friday). Regular performance times are: Thursday & Friday at 7:30pm; Saturday at 4:00pm and 8:30pm. Wednesday's Preview Performance is the Live Theatre League's Play Date of the Month. Proceeds from that preview will benefit the promotion of live theatre in Fort Worth & Tarrant County. Circle Theatre plans to donate Thursday's Preview proceeds to the New York Police and Fire Widows and Children's Benefit Fund. Preview tickets are $10 each. Opening night tickets (including champagne post-show) are $30. All regular performances are $15 -$20 (Thursday & Saturday matinee); & $20 - $25 (Friday & Saturday night). Half price student rush tickets are available at half hour on a standby basis. The Theatre also accepts Bell Helicopter coupons and Tandy Vouchers. The Play: Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is based on a true story chronicled in the book "An Evil Cradling" by Irish hostage survivor Brian Keenan, and presented in the movie "Hostages" (screenplay by Frank McGuinness). It opened at the Hampstead Theatre on July 10, 1992. The play was directed by Robin Lefevre. The cast was as follows: Michael- Alec McCowen; Adam- Hugh Quarshie; Edward-Stephen Rea. The Playwright: Frank McGuinness was born in 1953 in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, just across the border from Derry city, Northern Ireland. He grew up in a predominately Catholic Nationalist tradition. McGuinness was educated at University College Dublin where he studied medieval literature and mythology. McGuinness taught at several universities after graduating. He began his writing career in poetry; he started writing plays in the early 1980s. His dramatic works include: The Factory Girls (1982), Baglady (1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985), Innocence (1986), Carthaginians (1988), Mary and Lizzie (1989), The Bread Man (1991), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (1992), The Bird Sanctuary (1994), Mutabilitie (1997), and Dolly West's Kitchen (1999). -more- He has translated a number of classic dramas, including Ibsen's Rosmersholm (1987), Peer Gynt (1988), Hedda Gabler (1994) and A Doll's House (1997); Chekhov's Three Sisters (1990) and Uncle Vanya (1995); Lorca's Yerma (1987); Brecht's The Three Penny Opera (1987) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1997); Sophocles' Electra and Ostrovsky's The Storm. McGuinness has also done work for film and television including: Scout, Henhouse, and Dancing at Lughnasa. McGuinness collaborated with Marianne Faithfull on lyrics for her album A Secret Life. A collection of his poetry, Booterstown, is published by Gallery Press. News & Reviews: Dallas Morning News Star-Telegram Review Press Release Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is rated PG.