The Quare Fella (Divný člověk, 1956)

Přidal: Premek |

Leden 16, 2019

Brendan Behan. Rozhlasová adaptace divadelní hry. Produkce Míchéal O hAodha.

Osoby a obsazení: Dunlavin (Arthur O’Sullivan), soused (John Stephenson), první vězeň (Frank O’Dwyer), třetí vězeň (Charles McCarthy), mladý vězeň (Eamon Keane), odsouzenec na doživotí / zpěvák / Jenkinson (Lionel Day), Mixer / pan Healy (Thomas Studley), dozorce Warder (Eamon Kelly), dozorce Donnelly (Joseph O’Dea), první dozorce (Niall Tóibín), guvernér (George Greene), ředitel (Chris Curran), druhý vězeň / kat (Brendan Cauldwell), šéf (Conor Farrington), mladiství (Brendan Burke,
Leo Leyden), mladý dozorce (Noel Lynch), zpěvák (Liam De Valley), zpěvák /Old Triangle/ (Brendan Behan).

Natočeno 1956.

Alternativní verze názvu: Queer Fellow

Lit.: anonym: The Quare Fella by Brendan Behan. Behan’s masterpiece marks the 50th Anniversary of his death.. In web RTÉ Radio 1, b. d. (článek + nahrávka ke stažení a poslechu). – Cit.: Behan’s play was perfectly poised: it premiered in November 1954, seven months after Michael Manning’s hanging in Mountjoy and seven months before Ruth Ellis’s capital sentence was carried out in Holloway. Both prisoners were executed by Albert Pierrepoint, perhaps the most prolific serial-killer Britain has produced, with 434 legal stranglings to his credit. Human sacrifice itself remained on the Irish statute books until 1992, two years before the Eurovision interval-performance that became Riverdance.

An erudite man and no cartoon-drunk, the author of THE QUARE FELLA would have known that the theatrical form we call tragedy comes from the Greek tragodos, meaning the (death) procession of the scapegoat, and that the audience is therefore an accomplice to the cruelty it depicts. In the fiftieth anniversary year of his passing, in the era of the YouTube universe when videos of state atrocities receive millions of Internet hits, the transmission of his masterpiece is more than timely.