Article: PHILIP KEY'S RTS DIARY: Coup as Burke directs Behan; Playhouse is first tour date.(Features)

Article: BORSTAL BOY Brendan Behan was a hard-drinking criminal who died ...
The Independent on Sunday;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Burke are rescuing Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow from decades of neglect. Set in Dublin ... hours leading up to the hanging of the "quare fellow" (Irish jail slang for a condemned ... extraordinarily pertinent. For The Quare Fellow's original audiences, judicial hanging ...

Encyclopedia entry: Quare Fellow, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      258 words ...Quare Fellow, The (1954), a play by Brendan Behan , set in a Dublin prison. It concerns the execution of a murderer, the ‘quare fellow’.

Article: The Quare Fellow.
The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 8, 2004 ;     355 words ... ... was critic Kenneth Tynan's eloquent summation of The Quare Fellow. Behan's acclaimed first drama, of Irish prison life ... has toured extensively before arriving in the capital. The Quare Fellow and its cast of 17 come into the Tricycle hot on the heels ...

Article: Reviews:The Quare Fellow: Behan still shines
The Scotsman;  March 4, 2004 ;     514 words ...Theatre, The Quare Fellow, Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow **** AT THIS distance, it's difficult to remember how the idea of capital punishment stalked ...

Article: BERTIE UNVEILS TRIBUTE TO QUARE FELLOW BEHAN.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  December 9, 2003 ;     381 words ... ... wowed crowds with the first ever performance of a song written for the occasion by Dubliner Pete St John. Author of The Quare Fellow, Behan died in 1964 aged 41, just months after his wife Beatrice gave birth to their first child Blanaid. A chronic alcoholic ...

Article: Review: More than a matter of life anddeath; The Quare ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  February 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... a black and white film -the only real colour coming from the soil of the grave awaiting the arrival and departure of The Quare Fellow himself. RATING:HERE are thousands of children in the UK in need of the care and support of a new family. Some of these ...

Article: A LIFE IN FULL: The unbearable tightness of Behan Next month will ...
The Independent on Sunday;  February 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... that he lived it up so that he could write it down. It is probably more true of Behan, who peopled his plays, notably The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958), and his rollicking autobiography Borstal Boy (1958) with the flotsam of life on these ...