![]() In their comic representations, they express Behan's dislike for different aspects of Nationalist, Catholic, Republican Ireland's vision of itself by the late 1950s. ![]() The play has a large cast of over 13 characters with the Irish characters representing different facets of Irish nationalism. In the finale his corpse rises and sings " The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling". Leslie is killed in the ensuing gunfight, by Garda bullets. The play ends with news of the hanging in Belfast and armed Gardaí raid the brothel. During this Teresa promises never to forget him. Both are orphans living foreign to the city they find themselves in, Teresa being from Ballymahon, County Longford. The hostage of the title is Leslie Williams, a young and innocent Cockney British Army soldier taken hostage 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.ĭuring the course of the play, a love story develops between Leslie and Teresa, a young girl, resident of the house. 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. Like the protagonist of The Quare Fellow, the audience never sees him. The Hostage depicts the events leading up to the planned execution of an 18-year-old IRA member in a Belfast jail, accused of killing a Royal Ulster Constabulary policeman. ![]()
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