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Abbey Theatre | Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow24 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024★★★★ The Irish Times★★★★ Financial Times★★★★ Irish Examiner‘Inspired' Irish Independ...
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His first major success was The Quare Fellow, a prison drama inspired by the execution of a fellow prisoner from Mountjoy. After its debut in Dublin in 1954, Behan was hailed as the next Sean O’Casey, and his reputation was established in Ireland.
The Quare Fellow deals with a period between the arrival of a condemned murderer, and his execution, with which the play ends. The murderer is not named, and does not appear in the play. But the characters, his fellow prisoners and some of the warders, talk about him as "the quare fellow". He has been convicted of the murder of his brother ...
25. Nov. 2023 · The Quare Fellow, Brendan Behan’s 1954 play, is in many ways distinctly of its time, set in a midcentury Ireland where capital punishment was legal and homosexuality was not. Now, 100 years ...
Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison is abuzz in anticipation of an inmate’s pending execution, a convicted murderer known simply as “the quare fellow.” But as death looms over the prison walls, life on the inside can’t help but plod along.
The morbid interest of Irish writers in prison, hangman and death, as manifested in plays of Sean O'Casey and Lady Gregory, emerges again in the grim film that Arthur Dreifuss has made of Brendan ...
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see ...
