JONNY LEE MILLER IN SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME

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Show opened on Wednesday 20 April 2005 at the New Ambassadors Theatre and closed on the 18th of June 2005

Director: Dominic Dromgoole
Cast includes: Jonny Lee Miller, David Thelfall and Aidan Gillen

Inspired by the true account of former captive Brian Keenan, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me charts how the three hostages fight to maintain their sanity and humanity in a bare cell devoid of distraction. All is by no means sweetness and light between the three captives - an Englishman, an Irishman and an American - and while the play certainly isn’t an old-fashioned joke, plenty of humour is interwoven with the passion and the pathos.

Online Review London

It's hard to imagine this ever played, or to have been played, by any other three men than Jonny Lee Miller, Aiden Gillen and David Threlfall, whose dynamic is beautifully and inspirationally portrayed. As Adam, Miller makes a faultlessly convincing wholesome and introspective American Doctor whose gentleness contrasts nicely with Gillen's upfront cocky Irishman Edward. Threlfall's Michael is adorable and hilarious and sophisticatedly layered despite his caricatured appearance. And it's worth emphasising that at times this play, thanks mainly to Threlfall, is extremely funny indeed.

Superlatives can be a lazy and sometime belittling form of flattery, but nevertheless I say with conviction that Someone Who'll Watch Over Me is the best thing I've seen in a long time.

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The Telegraph

If the play has a fault, it is that the American hostage, Adam, is drawn less sharply than the other two. Even that superb actor Jonny Lee Miller doesn't have quite enough to work on to bring him to fully detailed life, though his empathy with the Koran and his terror at being picked out as the man to die are powerfully caught.

But the evening's real triumph is the superb double-act between Aidan Gillen's bolshie Irish journalist Edward, and David Threlfall's reserved, posh-voiced, laughably nerdish English literature lecturer who discovers and gradually reveals enormous reserves of courage and compassion. You seem to be watching the entire story of Anglo-Irish relations in their exasperated relationship, yet the tenderness that grows between them is overpoweringly moving.

Seeing the show not long after its première, an admiring Brian Keenan wrote that it made him choke and cry and laugh. This marvellous revival does all those things, as well as reducing the audience to the kind of rapt, attentive silence that is the hallmark of great artistry.

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