Biography EssayBrendan Behan was the most important new Irish dramatist of the 1950s. Writing without the support of the theatrical establishment (the Abbey Theatre rejected his early efforts), Behan ...
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Brendan Behan was the most important new Irish dramatist of the 1950s. Writing without the support of the theatrical establishment (the Abbey Theatre rejected his early efforts), Behan developed an or...
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Although Brendan Behan was the major new voice of Irish drama in the 1950s, for most of his contemporaries, his life was better known than his work. This situation was probably inevitable after he rec...
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Critical Essay by Paul M. Levitt
Brendan Behan's The Hostage is a frenetic play, difficult to sum up and easy to distort…. There is about it an effortless air of madcap fun, which at fi...
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Critical Essay by Colin Macinnes
There are artists whose public performance is so flamboyant … that their contemporaries, repelled or dazzled by the man, have failed to measure his artistic qu...
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Critical Essay by Sean Mccann
Brendan entertained with words … the sort of words that always kept his audience hungry … and kept them wondering just what would come next. 'He wro...
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Critical Essay by Richard Wall
An Giall [is] the restrained and almost forgotten tragi-comedy in Irish by Behan on which The Hostage is based….
An Giall (The Hostage) had its premièr...
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A few afterthoughts on the perfect revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Joe Mantello, at the newly named Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on 45th Street:If there were a Tony Award for...
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Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan
Critical Essay by Paul M. Levitt
Art of Closing Scummy Deals-Mamet's All-American Hustlers
