The New Theatre Extends The Quare Fellow Thru 9/4

The New Theater presents The Quare Fellow. Extended to Sept 4th by public demand by Brendan Behan

Due to phenomenal public demand The New Theatre is extending this critically accalimed run of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow to Saturday Sept 4th

Monday to Saturday @ 8 pm
Tickets: €15, €12 (concs), €10 (groups of 10+)

What the critics say...

'The Quare Fellow should be required viewing for every member of the "whip 'em and flog 'em" brigade....terrific performances...distils and delivers Behan's narrative and message with savage, horrible simplicity.'
Emer O' Kelly, The Sunday Independent

'The New Theatre's Ronan Wilmot has assembled a cast that definitely does the writing justice...if the jammers New Theatre is anything to go by, Behan's work should get more outings.'

Louise Finn (The Dubliner) Evening Herald

About the Show:

The play is set in Mountjoy Jail on the day and night before the unnamed Quare Fellow is to be hanged for murdering his brother.

The play had a huge impact on its premiere at The Pike Theatre but Ireland of the 1950s was not ready or mature enough to embrace a working class Republican playwright writing about hanging, which was still a judicial sentence in Ireland at that time. Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift were unable to transfer the show to one of the bigger Dublin theatres and it was not until Joan Littlewood directed the show in 1956 in her theatre, The Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London and the critical reaction from the English press and its subsequent transfer to the West End for a six month run, that Ireland and the world woke up to the genius of Brendan Behan.

For more information on the show visit the Box Office. TEL: 01-6703361
EMAIL: info@thenewtheatre.com

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