Word: behan
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...reduced to a mess of living room furnishings that seem to confuse the actors as much they do the audience. The added musical numbers formed than those in the first act. Blocking and movement are likewise confused, sloppily ad-libbed, and uncertain. It would thus appear that author Brendan Behan died at some point midway through the second act, leaving an outsider to piece together the remainder of his play from a largely illegible collection of notes...
Mayor Ed Koch led the procession, pushing the wheelchair of Long Island Assemblyman John Behan, 40, who lost both legs to a land mine near Da Nang. General William Westmoreland marched for a bit, then dropped out to watch from the reviewing stand, but finally rejoined the straggle in the street (against the advice of police) when passing Army vets invited him with the call, "Westy! Westy!" Said he: "I love these guys, and I am going to march with them." Spectators and veterans repeatedly came together in spontaneous embraces. After bussing a woman of about 60, Brooklynite Mark Carraway...
...died on a spring morning in 1944 with the words "Damn it! There's that cuckoo again!" Tallulah Bankhead used a splendid economy of language at her parting in New York City's St. Luke's Hospital in 1968. "Bourbon," she said. The Irish writer Brendan Behan rose to the occasion in 1964 when he turned to the nun who had just wiped his brow and said, "Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops." Some sort of award for sharp terminal repartee should be bestowed (posthumously) upon an uncle of Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...BRENDAN BEHAN Dublin...
...those quick brilliant flourishes-when the fine acting enhances the other elements of the show to create a whole, coherent moment of enticing theater- to sustain an audience for three acts. What this version of the Hostage lacks in exuberancd, it makes up for in its faithful rendering of Behan's sincerity and sensitivity...