NOTE: The following review dates from April 2004’s and this production’s last run at London’s Tricycle Theatre. For current cast information, see performance listings. Having now seen The Quare Fellow ...

“In the female prison there lie 70 women, and it’s in there with them that I’d like to dwell.” This stirring trot-around for a venerable warhorse, seen first at the Abbey in 1956, makes great play ...

It is striking that some of the most innovative writing in Ireland in the decade after the second World War began its life behind bars. This was true of Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (see 1949) ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Quare Fellow popularised “The Auld Triangle”, which is repeatedly sung in Brendan Behan’s 1954 play set ...

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"Quare" in the mountains means just what it sounds like, but is not used as a noun. If somebody, or a whole family, has real odd ways, they are said to be "quare." You can be quare and not queer, ...

Based on Brendan Behan's play [adapted by Jacqueline Sundstrom and director Arthur Dreifuss], this is an all-out protest against capital punishment. It is downbeat entertainment but honest and has the ...