ABSTRACT
If the Royal Court unmistakably took the lead in the field of new drama with Look Back in Anger, it was not long before a rival appeared on the scene; only a fortnight later a new play by a new dramatist was produced at the Theatre Royal, Stratford, which was to create almost as much stir as John Osborne’s when it arrived in the West End: The Quare Fellow, by Brendan Behan, which opened on 24 May 1956.
