The hostage situation is both an inherently dramatic and an inherently static scenario. Suspense springs from the central jeopardy of the unanswered, life-or-death question: will these prisoners get out alive? But from an onlooker's perspective, there is nothing particularly riveting about a group of people confined to one place and forced to play a monotonous [...]
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PM on August 21, 2012