Article: 24Seven: FUNNY GIRL; But Joe Riley finds there's more to Kathy than just playing the clown.(Features)

Article: BORSTAL BOY Brendan Behan was a hard-drinking criminal who died ...
The Independent on Sunday;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Company and director Kathy Burke are rescuing Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow from decades of neglect ... the hanging of the "quare fellow" (Irish jail slang ... extraordinarily pertinent. For The Quare Fellow's original audiences ...

Article: The Quare Fellow.
The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 8, 2004 ;     355 words ... ... s eloquent summation of The Quare Fellow. Behan's acclaimed first drama ... century. To mark the occasion, Kathy Burke directs a new production that ... arriving in the capital. The Quare Fellow and its cast of 17 come into the ...

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 ... in a 50th anniversary touring production, superbly directed by Kathy Burke for the Oxford Stage Company and Liverpool Theatres, that its ...

Article: Review: More than a matter of life anddeath; The Quare ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  February 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... extraordinary situations. Director Kathy Burke triumphs in conveying the harsh ... designer David Roger. But it is Kathy Burke who deserves most praise for allowing ... the arrival and departure of The Quare Fellow himself. RATING:HERE are thousands ...

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: THEATRE: AVOID IT: THE QUARE FELLOW.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  April 16, 2004 ;     300 words ...Byline: SEAN DOWNS Kathy Burke directs Brendan Behan's play set in an Irish prison prior to an execution. Burke has spent the ... Kilburn High Road, London, NW6. 7pm. pounds 10. Tel: 020 7328 1000. CAPTION(S): DIRECTOR: Kathy Burke

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 ...