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The Hostage

By Brendan Behan Directed by

Leslie a young British soldier is taken hostage from the border and kept in a brothel that once was a house of an IRA commander. In the house he falls in love with a tenant Teresa. In the background the story of an eighteen-year-old IRA member is to be executed in Belfast for the murder of a policeman. Although we never see this we see the events that led to his planned execution.

Dates & Tickets

Galway Jesuit Hall 28 October - 7 November 1987

Clifden Town Hall 9 November 1987

Lisdoonvarna Community Centre 11 November 1987

Listowel The Plaza 13 November 1987

Carlow Scoil gan Smál 15 November 1987

Callan St. Brigid’s Convent Hall 17 November 1987

Tullamore GAA Hall 19 November 1987

Dundalk Town Hall 21 November 1987

Sligo Hawk’s Well 23 - 27 November 1987

Shercock St. Patrick’s Hall 29 November 1987

Mullingar Town Hall 1 December 1987

Ballinasloe John R. Sea Hall (St. Brigid’s) 3 December 1987

Boyle St. Joseph’s Hall 5 December 1987

Kiltimagh Town Hall Theatre 7 December 1987

Westport Town Hall 9 December 1987

Inis Meáin An Halla 11 December 1987