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...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...
...Broadway season's first new offering, Brendan Behan's The Hostage, though less a play than a dramatization of its wild Irish playwright, tells the humane, hilarious, howlingly off-key story of a young English soldier held hostage in a Dublin brothel, is an irreverent stage piece that is thoroughly good fun. The World of Carl Sandburg, an evening of the poet's work more or less acted out by Bette Davis and Leif Erickson, comes off as an agreeable recital, evoking a poet's world that i dramatically mild and a little ostentatiously benign...
...Hostage (by Brendan Behan) seems much less a play than a dramatization of its playwright: sprawling, shocking, howlingly off-key, marvelously in tune, humane and hilarious. What story there is turns on a young English soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin brothel against the Belfast hanging of an Irish patriot. Under Joan Littlewood's brilliant direction, this proves story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make...
...Behan, like Burns, is their humanely uncorked and uncanting fellow sinner. And in its tousled way, his stage piece is thoroughly good...
...sees it. is to light Hollywood's way out of its cultural cave. After A Raisin in the Sun, he has contracted to do three more films for Columbia, is considering doing the life of Evita Peron, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy and Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow...