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The Quare Fellow
Written byBrendan Behan
CharactersPrison Chaplain
Warder Crimmin
Prisoner A (Hard Case)
Prisoner B (The Man of Thirty)
Prisoner C (The Boy from the Island)
Prisoner D (The Embezzler)
The Other Fellow
Enoch Jenkinson
Assistant Hangman
Shaybo
Second Warder
Neighbour
Mickser
Holy Healey
Chief Warder
Dunlavin
Cook
Halliwell, 2nd Asst. Hangman
Medical Orderly
Warder Regan
English Voice
First Warder
Scholar
Prisoner in Isolation
Principal Warder
Lifer
Prison Governor
Date premieredNovember 19, 1954 (1954-11-19)
Place premieredPike Theatre, Dublin
Original languageEnglish
Genretragicomedy
SettingMountjoy Prison, 1950s

The Quare Fellow is Brendan Behan's first play, first produced in 1954. The title is taken from a Hiberno-English pronunciation of queer.

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