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...ultraconservative Roman Catholic clergy still heavily censors the arts and entertainment. At one time or another, many of the best native authors have been banned from libraries, including works by George Moore, Liam O'Flaherty, O'Casey, Frank O'Connor, Shaw, Brendan Behan. But things are easing up a little. Cinematic sex has become so much sexier and more frequent, ex plains Justice Minister Haughey, that the censors have been told to go easy with the scissors, "or else our cinemas won't get any films at all." Another sign of the new liberality...
...walk out feeling that they have had less than a stunning theatrical experience. It is Joan Littlewood's particular talent to cull any number of miscellaneous disparities and improvise them into a dramatic force, as she proved when she turned 30 pages of brilliantly spattered fragments into Brendan Behan's The Hostage...
...case you've forgotten, Miss Littlewood is the gal who founded London's Theatre Workshop, where she introduced the works of playwrights like Brendan Behan and shelagh Delaney, trained many performers, and generally ruled over the most vigorous theatrical institution in the city until she suddenly gave it up two years...
...Quare Fellow. In this movie version of his first successful play, Brendan Behan storms out against capital punishment. And, because Irishmen laugh when others might weep, he also laughs at the way men are made to live in jail, and condemned...
...Quare Fellow. In this movie version of his first successful play, Brendan Behan storms out against capital punishment. And, because Irishmen laugh when others might weep, he also laughs at the way men are made to live in jail, and condemned...