The Quare Fellow

Quare Fellow, The

    Alternative Title: The Twisting of Another Rope

    Author: Brendan Behan

    First Performance: 1954, Dublin

    Published: 1956

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts

    Setting: Corridor and yard of a Dublin prison, 1950s

    Cast: 22m

Prisoners discuss the fate of two fellow inmates: one, who killed his wife, has been reprieved, while another, the ‘Quare (= “queer”) Fellow’, who savagely murdered his brother with a meat chopper, is to be hanged. The reprieved murderer is depressed at the thought of life imprisonment and later tries to hang himself, but the old prisoner Dunlavin assures him that it is better than hanging, which he describes with relish. An examiner from the Justice Department perfunctorily checks on the welfare of the prisoners. That evening the prisoners exercise in...

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