The Humour and the Horror Inside Behan's Prison [Eire Region]

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Brendan Behan owed a lot of his celebrity to his drunken exploits in 1950s London, but his reputation as a writer owes a great deal to the theatrical expertise and writing skills of Carolyn Swift and her husband Alan Simpson.

They set up and ran the tiny Pike Theatre, off Leeson Street in Dublin, where they put on the first production in 1954 of The Quare Fella, a play about a convict condemned to be executed. There's a lot of evidence that Swift's work on the script is what turned it into the play that made Behan famous.

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The Humour and the Horror Inside Behan's Prison [Eire Region]

Ronan Wilmot, whose production of The Quare Fella opens in the New Theatre in Essex Street tom...

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