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Borstal Boy is a play adapted by Frank McMahon from the 1958 autobiographical novel of Irish nationalist Brendan Behan of the same title. The play debuted in 1967 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, with Frank Grimes as the young Behan. McMahon won a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1970 and Tony Award in 1970 for his adaptation.
- 1967
- Liverpool; Dublin, 1939
In 1967, the story debuted as a play, adapted by Frank McMahon and staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, with Frank Grimes as the young Behan. The play was a great success, winning McMahon a Tony Award for his adaptation. The play remains popular with both Irish and American audiences.
- 342 pp (first edition)
- Hutchinson
- 1958
- Brendan Behan
This Tony Award-winning play is adapted from Brendan Behan's autobiography of the same title. When young Behan, who has joined the IRA, is sent to Liverpool to plant bombs in a shipyard, he is caught and sent to a harsh prison. There, Behan must figure out how to survive the brutality of sadistic guards, finding hope and discovering friendships ...
Borstal Boy (Original, Play, Broadway) opened in New York City Mar 31, 1970 and played through Aug 1, 1970.
Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy Published in Issue 6 (November/December 2014), Reviews, Volume 22. 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 ...
Borstal Boy, autobiographical work by Irish writer Brendan Behan, published in 1958. The book portrays the author’s early rebelliousness, his involvement with the Irish Republican cause, and his subsequent incarceration for two years in an English Borstal, or reformatory, at age 16. Interspersed.
Summary. The soul of a poet is captured in this award-winning play. 16 year-old Brendan Behan is sent from Ireland by the IRA to blow up some British ships. He is caught, imprisoned, tried and sentenced to a reformatory. After three years, he is released and renounces the 'revolution' forever.
