'The Quare Fellow' on Tour: Dun Laoghaire, Blanchardstown, Tallaght

56 YEARS after its first performance, The New Theatre pays tribute to Brendan Behan, Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift (founders of The Pike Theatre) with this re-staging of Behan’s seminal theatrical work.

Set in Mountjoy Prison on the day and night before the unnamed Quare Fellow is to be hanged, the play portrays the prisoners’ drab existence as they argue, laugh and struggle in the confined spaces of their incarceration, and all the while the awful moment of execution approaches. The Quare Fellow is directed by Ronan Wilmot.

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7 - 9 Oct - The Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire.

To book, go to www.paviliontheatre.ie or call 01 231 2929.

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14 - 16 Oct - The Draiocht Theatre, Blanchardstown.

To book, go to www.draiocht.ie or call 01 885 2622.

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26 - 30 Oct - The Civic Theatre, Tallaght.

To book, go to www.civictheatre.ie or call 01 462 7477.