The Quare Fellow | |
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Written by | Brendan Behan |
Characters | Prison Chaplain Warder Crimmin Prisoner A (Hard Case) Prisoner B (The Man of Thirty) Prisoner C (The Boy from the Island) Prisoner D (The Embezzler) The Other Fellow Enoch Jenkinson Assistant Hangman Shaybo Second Warder Neighbour Mickser Holy Healey Chief Warder Dunlavin Cook Halliwell, 2nd Asst. Hangman Medical Orderly Warder Regan English Voice First Warder Scholar Prisoner in Isolation Principal Warder Lifer Prison Governor |
Date premiered | November 19, 1954 |
Place premiered | Pike Theatre, Dublin |
Original language | English |
Genre | tragicomedy |
Setting | Mountjoy Prison, 1950s |
The Quare Fellow is Brendan Behan's first play, first produced in 1954. The title is taken from a Hiberno-English pronunciation of queer.