The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
Published for the first time: 9/26/1996
80 pages, Paperback
Genres: Plays, Theatre, Drama, Irish Literature, Ireland, Contemporary, Fiction
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996.
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