KLPac presents a tense, darkly funny tale of three hostages clinging to hope


In 'Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me' at KLPac, actors (from left) Donnelly, Yap and Judd step back into the harrowing roles of three men – an American doctor, an Irish journalist and an English academic – imprisoned in a windowless cell in Beirut. Photo: Tat Chin

It's a curious detail, almost poetic in its timing. One of Joe Hasham’s favourite theatre plays – Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness – has never made it to the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) stage.

Despite Hasham being the longtime artistic director of both The Actors Studio and KLPac, the play remained absent from the venue’s repertoire.

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