Word: behan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hostage. Sprawling, shocking, howlingly off key, marvelously in tune, humane and hilarious, this play is as much a portrait of Playwright Brendan Behan as it is the story of an English soldier held as a hostage at I.R.A. headquarters in a Dublin brothel...
...Hostage. A jolly but self-indulgent romp in which Playwright Brendan Behan proves himself more than a buffoon if less than a philosopher...
...Hostage, by Brendan Behan. A gorgeous display of Erin-go-bawdry, keening Celtic lyricism and tongue-out-of-cheek irreverence. In an incoherent sort of way, it is all about an English soldier captive in Ireland...
...unprintable dialogue." Another was a draft mailed in for criticism by a 19-year-old Lancashire girl. Yet each had all the racy, rowdy, down-to-life vitality that Producer-Director Joan Littlewood is forever seeking. After helping the authors to shape their work, she staged both plays-Brendan Behan's The Hostage and Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey - in her small. 512-seat Theater Royal in the waterfront London slum district called Stratford East. Both won so much praise that they eventually moved from farthingsville to London's moneyed West End. Both...
...Hostage, by Brendan Behan, holds an English soldier-and the audience-captive, while his Irish characters run the emotional gamut from bawdy irreverence to keening Irish lyricism...