{"product_id":"9781474225786","title":"The Hostage","description":"An essential text in the development of modern British drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo-Irish relationships and on the Irish themselves. This is Behan's best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage.A magnificent entertainment which \"crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and cynicism...\" (Harold Hobson, The Times)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180207620336,"sku":"9781474225786","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781474225786_p0.jpg?v=1763604065","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781474225786","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}