"Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" - Actor preparation

For preparation for his role as American hostage Adam Canning in Frank McGuinness' play, "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me", actor Richard Stables spent 8 days in solitary confinement. Locked in a bare 8x6 foot room and chained to a wall, he spent most of his confinement in darkness, slept 4 hours a night and was subjected to the 'Call to Prayer' blasting through the cell door at sunrise and vicious beatings twice a day. He urinated in a bottle and was only taken to the toilet once every other day.
Since first preparing for the role nearly 4 months ago, Richard has slept an average of just 5 hours per night and lost 16 kgs by starving himself with only one small meal a day.
By Opening Night he would have lost 20 kgs and spent over 30 days in solitary confinement.
In fact, right this minute, somewhere in Melbourne, Richard/Adam is sitting alone, locked away in a cell.

Someone Wholl Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
West East Theatre by arrangement with Casarotto Ramsay
www.westeasttheatre.com

Wed 29 Apr 09 to Sun 17 May 09

Times: Previews Wed 29 & Thu 30 April
Opening Night Fri 1 May
Tue - Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm

Duration: 1 hour 45 (approx)

ticket price: $15 Preview / $25 Full / $20 Conc

bookings:
03 9662 9966
book online at www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

Someone Wholl Watch Over Me, was a smash hit on The West End and Broadway in 1992 with the star of The Crying Game, Stephen Rea. And again in 2005 starring Johnny Lee Miller of Trainspotting fame.

Based on the real life experience of Brian Keenan, Someone Wholl Watch Over Me is the story of three men who are kidnapped in broad daylight on the streets of Beirut and held captive together in a small cell.

Powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive?

The characters resort to elaborate flights of fancy and games of the imagination. From pretending to be the Queen at the Wimbledon tennis final, to bunny-acting competitions and flying Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from Beirut to Dublin, their compassion and humour rescues each other from the brink of insanity.

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