"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, ...

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 ...

The Abbey Theatre has announced a never-before-seen rework of Brendan Behan's iconic play "The Quare Fellow", replacing the play's traditionally all-male cast with a cast played exclusively by female ...

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) ...

Brendan Behan set his debut play in Dublin's notorious Mountjoy Prison, and researched it thoroughly by spending four years there as an inmate in the 1940s. Yet for all the work's garrulous ...

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 ...

Clancy Sigal is the author of "Going Away" and "The Secret Defector" and is a screenwriter. Brendan Behan, the bad boy of modern Irish letters, was good copy. Journalists like myself fed off him, fed ...