Kidnapping play to be performed for Cork prisoners

Scenes from an Irish play about three men kidnapped in Lebanon will be performed for inmates at Cork Prison tomorrow.

The daytime performance of scenes from Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, the 1992 play by Frank McGuinness, will be followed by a workshop and discussion, the Irish Examiner reports.

The play is being staged as part of the Irish Prison Education Access programme delivered by the Education and Training Board (ETB).

Prisons’ arts officer Tom Shortt said: “These prisoners have been doing a course through UCC on prison writing.

“They have been studying a long list of people who have written about the experience of being in prison, from Oscar Wilde to Nelson Mandela. There’s quite a body of prison literature from people who were sometimes unjustly incarcerated.”

Twenty prisoners will watch scenes from the McGuinness play and give feedback to the Decadent Theatre Company, which is performing the full play at the Everyman theatre in Cork later this month.