![]() I bring up this story so that if you have kids who are in high school, you might want to mention the safety issues concerned with being dropped of in cities that might not be so safe for a few kids late at night. The kids were lucky the police weren’t called.Īpparently this is a very popular game. AROUND 70 tourists including Brits have been freed after they were taken hostage in the Amazon rainforest by a group of indigenous protesters. I can’t even imagine what other drivers were thinking. On top of that, the kids were blindfolded. My concern was that it was late at night and the kids were dropped off in some not so safe neighborhoods. In some ways, it sounds like a fun innocent game. The winning team is the group that gets back to the original location first. The idea of the game is by using street signs alone (and not GPS) the dropped off kids must call their teammates and describe their location so they can be picked up. Once they get out of the car, they can take off the blindfolds. They get into a car and are driven to an unknown location and dropped off. Once you are in your groups, one or two people are blindfolded from each team. (I guess you can play solo, but thankfully at least my daughter insisted on going with a friend). Then she told me that she played a game I might not approve of (never a good thing to be hearing).Ī bunch of kids went up to the local high school and got into groups. When my daughter came home from the graduation party, she said she had a great time. She was at a graduation party that was wrapping up and a group of kids decided to continue the festivities with a game called hostage. In any case, the Charles is always a nice place to see a play, and The Hostage is a good play to see.My daughter just graduated from high school. The theater itself seems ideal for The Hostage the stage, surrounded on three sides by the audience, facilitates the endless entrances and exits, and the characters' numerous remarks to the house seem less contrived with the audience so close. The actors, most of whom performed in the play off-Broadway last year, are excellent. The Charles production is a polished one. ![]() That they laugh may prove to Behan that they are fools, but to me it proves only that a skilled dramatist can confuse his audience. Actors of a Russian play glorifying the invasion of Ukraine took some of their spectators 'hostage' as they attempted to provide theatergoers with immersion, according to reports. By loading his play with comic lines and humorous situations, Behan makes his audience laugh confusedly through a tragedy. The humor is broad ("Vat 69-that's the Pope's phone number"), there are lots of loud, funny songs, and people fly on and off the stage in the best slapstick tradition. The social workers sing a parody on "Danny Boy" entitled "No One Loves You But Yourself." When the soldier demands to know why he is to die, the caretaker can only cite English atrocities to Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria.īut the jokes are funny as the plot is bitter. His IRA soldiers fight fiercely for an utterly ridiculous cause. There is a surprise ending, which we won't spoil for you.īehan sneers at all his characters. When an Irish boy is arrested in Belfast for killing a policeman, Monsewer's IRA colleagues kidnap a 19-year-old English soldier and bring him to the house as a hostage for the life of "the Bel-fast martyr." The soldier falls in love with a maid and makes friends with the other occupants, but when he begs them to help him escape, they refuse. A Russian sailor, two officers of the Irish Republican Army, a few Catholic social workers and a Negro pizefighter named Princess Grace also drift across the stage. In Brendan Behans An Giall and The Hostage, song and dance establish atmosphere and character, comment ironically on the action, relate the characters to. The play is set in a Dublin lodging house inhabited by two whores, two homosexuals, a caretaker, and an old Englishman named Monsewer who came to fight for Ireland's independence 45 years ago and has never given up the cause. Behan fails to make his audience seem stupid he merely demonstrates that a clever playwright can confuse his house. Even when the dead man rises, still wrapped in his shroud, to tell the audience it is going to hell, the viewers laugh and applaud-the threat comes in the form of a jingle. His play shows how prejudice, blind stupidity, and love of convention combine to kill an innocent young man, but it never lets the audience stop laughing. In The Hostage, he tries to prove his point by mocking both the characters and the audience. Brendan Behan, the often-drunk Irish playwright, thinks most people are fools.
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