© Amelia Stein, production photograph from The Beauty Queen of Leenane, with Anna Manahan
OVERVIEW
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Playwright
Martin McDonagh
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Setting
The play is set in Leenane, a small town in Connemara, County Galway.
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Notes
The Beauty Queen of Leenane was subsequently restaged alongside the premieres of 'A Skull in Connemara' and 'The Lonesome West' (both listed separately) as part of The Leenane Trilogy in June, 1997.
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Synopsis
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 ageing mother. Mag's interference in her daughter's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that lead inexorably towards the play's inevitable dénouement.
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Play Type
Plays General
Number Of Acts
Full-Length
Cast size
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Male
2
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Female
2
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Total
4