The Big Fellah [Paperback]

Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011

Young New Yorker Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. Hes recruited by Costello, the charismatic Big Fellah, who wants to use Doyles brownstone apartment in The Bronx as a safe house for an escaped killer. But it soon becomes clear that someone is leaking information to the FBI... Set among Irish Americans in New York, Richard Beans dark, glinting, funny play spans three turbulent decades. A boisterous and witty story of loyalty, disillusionment and betrayal.

RICHARD BEAN, a former stand-up comedian and renowned British playwright has had plays staged worldwide. An award winning writer his first full length play,Of Rats and Menwas staged at the Canal Caf? and went on to Edinburgh. He adapted it for radio for the BBC and it was nominated for a Sony Award. This was followed byToast, a hit at the Royal Court in 1999. His other plays have been staged at such illustrious venues as the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the Hampstead theatre. Bean also won the 2005 Critics' Circle Theatre Best New Play Award forHarvest.