The Beauty Queen of Leenane
From: Wednesday, 20th July 2011
To: Saturday, 3 September 2011
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Synopsis
McDonagh's first play. 1996 Writers' Guild Award Winner - Best Fringe Theatre Play. Set in a small cottage in the mountains of Connemara, The Beauty Queen of Leeane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her forties and Mag, her manipulative, ageing mother. When Mag interferes in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship, she sets a chain of events in motion that lead inexorably towards the play's terrifying denouement. Contains scenes of an adult nature.
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Michael Coveney - 27 July 2011
Martin McDonagh’s debut 1996 play returns to the Young Vic in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s terrific production, with Rosaleen Linehan reprising her brilliant and unrestrained performance of last July as the bullying, whimpering, manipulative mother, Mag, high in the mountains of Connemara.
Mag’s daughter, Maureen, is now played by Derbhle Crotty, less worn down to start with than was Susan Lynch, but just as moving and frustrated by the end. For the richness of this play lies in the almost mythical representation of a tug of love between mother and daughter, and the malign pull of a sense of duty on both sides.
Maureen’s brutally obstructed escape route comes courtesy of Pato Dooley, a decent and tentative navvy on leave from exile in London, while Pato’s younger brother, Ray, causes the catastrophe as a careless postman. These two are now played by Frank Laverty and Johnny Ward, every bit as good as their predecessors.
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Clare - 26 August 2011:
Saw this last night and it was brilliant, great set such a good storyline with great humour and superb acting, must remember to come back to this venue too. ...
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Martin McDonagh (Author)
Young Vic (Producer)
Joe Hill-Gibbins (Director)
Ultz (Design)
Charles Balfour (Lighting)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
Charles Balfour (Lighting)
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