The Beauty Queen of Leenane
From: Thursday, 15th July 2010
To: Saturday, 21 August 2010
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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.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 22 July 2010
Martin McDonagh burst into the theatre with The Beauty Queen of Leenane back in 1996, in an acclaimed joint production by Druid and the Royal Court. This outstanding Young Vic revival by Joe Hill-Gibbins confirms the play as a classic of mother and daughter warfare in what Fintan O’Toole described as “the mental universe of people who live on the margins of a globalized culture.”
The audience enters the rural cottage in Connemara through dark corridors, a rain-sodden patch of scuffed grass and vast swathes of plastic sheeting. And Ultz has designed the dingy kitchen to perfection, with paint peeling on the red door, and a photograph of the Kennedy brothers conjuring the Irish diaspora that awaits Maureen Folan, the doomed beauty queen.
Everything about Maureen, as played by Susan Lynch in an outsized football shirt, declares her cultural dislocation. The church, the community, her disgusting old mother, Mag: they all have their claws in her....
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Job - 21 August 2010:
Caught the final performance and yes, both the play and the production are as good as their reputation. Wonderful comic performances, and the horror when it came was electifying....
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Martin McDonagh (Author)
Young Vic (Producer)
Joe Hill-Gibbins (Director)
Ultz (Design)
Charles Balfour (Lighting)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
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