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 ...

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Shay Duffin as Brendan Behan has had 2 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 1973 and Off-Broadway which opened in 1981.

THE SCARPERER by Brendan Behan. 158 pages. Doubeday. $3.95. To scarper is to make off, to run away, to escape, in Irish slang. And to scarper is what the young Brendan Behan must often have dreamed of ...

Actor Adrian Dunbar has played Brendan Behan on the stage many times, and now sets out on a journey to discover the real story of the poet and playwright. He travels to all the cities Behan lived in, ...

A film about the writing of Brendan Behan realised through three performers wandering through Dublin reciting extracts from his work. Together it tells of Behan's life and also prison, about ...

DUBLIN saw a lot of trouble, but not all her songs were, as they say, of war and slaughter. They also knew the heart-scald of men chasing women or, as happens now and again during leap year and the ...

On March 20, 1964 Brendan Behan died in the Meath Hospital in Dublin. He was buried within Glasnevin cemetery after one of the biggest funerals seen in Dublin. Behan was a complex, remarkable man. His ...

Colleagues and relatives reflect on the dynamic life of Irish writer Brendan Behan beginning with his adolescent years as an activist and his affiliation with the IRA youth group Fianna Éireann Behan ...

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