An essential text in the development of modern British drama
First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo-Irish relationships and on the Irish themselves. This is Behan's best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage.
A magnificent entertainment which "crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and cynicism…" (Harold Hobson, The Times)
| ISBN: | 9780413311900 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 1959 |
| Author: | Brendan Behan |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of A&C Black |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 109 pages |
| Series: | Methuen Modern Plays |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |
An essential text in the development of modern British dramaFirst staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house.
The Hostage features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts
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The Hostage was written by Brendan Behan and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of A&C Black
The Hostage has 109 pages
Yes it is part of Methuen Modern Plays series
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