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Sep 19, 2014 · Borstal Boy. Gaiety Theatre. *** That Brendan Behan’s classic memoir can concern itself with IRA bombings, prison life, casual violence and wartime death yet still end up as a rollicking show...
Sep 19, 2014 · Theatre Review: Borstal Boy at The Gaiety Theatre. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan. John McKeown. Thu 18 Sep 2014 at 18:30. Gary Lydon is an appealingly dry and laconic Brendan Behan in...
Sep 20, 2014 · Behan’s autobiographical Borstal Boy is a perfect, and at times bizarre, mix of patriotism, brutality, comradery, hopelessness and hope that culminates in an emotional and laugh-out-loud...
Gaiety Theatre, Verdant Productions, 11 Sept.–25 Oct. 2014. By Donal Fallon. In June 1959 the Irish Times noted that, with the success of The Hostage and his book Borstal Boy, the name of Brendan Behan ‘has become almost as well-known through theatrically-minded Europe as those of Shaw and Wilde’.
Niall Tóibín stars in Brendan Behan's 'Borstal Boy' in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. ‘Borstal Boy’, the stage adaptation by Frank McMahon from the book of the same name by Brendan Behan, is ...
Sep 3, 2014 · There was also the prospect of a Gaiety Theatre revival of The Borstal Boy, Frank McMahon's adaptation of Behan's famous memoir. The conversation ran into a hesitant silence.
Borstal Boy opened for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 10 October 1967. The success of the production saw it move on to Limerick and Belfast before hitting the big time...
