Borstal Boy (play)

Borstal Boy (play)

Infobox Play
name = Borstal Boy


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writer = Brendan Behan (novel)
Frank McMahon (play)
characters = Young Behan
Charlie Millwall
Brendan Behan
Mr. Whitbread
Mrs. Gildea
Hartigan
Harty
I.R.A. Men
setting = Liverpool; Dublin, 1939
premiere = 1967
place = Abbey Theatre
Dublin, Ireland
orig_lang = English
subject =
genre = Drama, Romance
web =
playbill =
ibdb_id = 2153
__NOTOC__"Borstal Boy" is a play adapted by Frank McMahon from the 1958 autobiographical novel of Irish nationalist Brendan Behan of the same title. The play debuted in 1967 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, with Frank Grimes as the young Behan. McMahon won a Tony Award in 1971 for his adaptation.

Plot synopsis

The title takes its name from the borstal, a British juvenile jail, at Hollesley Bay. The book was originally banned in Ireland for obscenity.

The story is a recounting of Behan's imprisonment at Hollesley Bay for carrying explosives into the United Kingdom, with intent to cause explosions on a mission for the I.R.A.. A young, idealistic Behan loses his naivete over the three years of his sentence, softening his radical stance and warming to the other prisoners.

Film adaptations

The novel was adapted for film by Peter Sheridan and Nye Heron in 2000.

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