The Hostage

The play depicts the events leading up to the planned execution of an 18-year-old IRA member in a Belfast jail, accused of killing an Ulster policeman. The action of the play is set in a very odd house of ill-repute on Nelson Street, Dublin, owned by a former IRA commandant. A young and innocent Cockney British soldier taken at the border with Northern Ireland and held in the brothel, brought among the vibrant but desperately unorthodox combination of prostitutes, revolutionaries and general low characters inhabiting the place.

Cast

• Pat: John McCue
• Meg Dillon: Ricky Wilber
• Monsewer: Jack Corliss
• Mr. Mulleady: Baron Bates
• Miss Gilchrist: Geraldine Frost
• Rio Rita: Tom Beck
• Princess Grace: Tom Johannesen
• Colette: Marilyn Spitzer
• Bobo: Joan Amendola Segal
• Ropeen: Elsie Feldman
• Leslie: George Voorhis
• Teresa: Lisa Friedman
• I.R.A. Officer: Dermot O’Sullivan
• Volunteer: Richard Meagher
• Russian Sailor: Joe Finnegan
• The Piano Player: Sean Slade
• Whore: Jacki Beck
• Patron: George O’Spelvin

Production Staff / Crew

• Director: James Naismith
• Producer: Gloria Landman
• Assistant Director: Gene Possidento
• Set Designer: Robert Sven Olson
• Costume Designer: Elisabeth Lynch
• Lighting Designer: Tom Morley
• Stage Manager: Nancy Cacioppo
• Property Designer: Leslie Christgau
• Technical Director: Larry Scott
• Sound Designer: Anne Naismith
• Make-up Designer: Ruth Button