Who wrote The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy?
The Quare Fellow Theatre. In 1962 the play was adapted for the screen by Arthur Dreifuss and starred Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms and Walter Macken. Although the film received some favourable reviews, it is not regarded as a faithful adaptation of the play. "The Auld Triangle", a song from the opening of the play, has become an Irish music standard and is known by many who are unaware of its link to "The Quare Fellow". The Quare Fellow The Quare Fellow is Brendan Behan's first play, first produced in 1954. The title is taken from a Hiberno-English pronunciation of "queer". The play is
The Quare Fellow at the Pike Theatre Club, Herbert Lane, Dublin, on 19 November 1954 to critical success. "The Quare Fellow" had its London première in May 1956 at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. On 24 July 1956 it transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London. In September 1956 the Abbey Theatre finally performed "The Quare Fellow". It had such success that the Abbey's artistic director, Ria Mooney, pushed the next play back to allow "The Quare Fellow" to run for six weeks. Its first New York performance was on 27 November 1958 at the Circle in the Square