The Beauty Queen Of Leenane
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SKU: HU.9780822216643

Play, Plays. Softcover Book. Hal Leonard Australia #9780822216643. Published by Hal Leonard Australia (HU.9780822216643).

ISBN D0822216647. 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.1 inches.

THE STORY: 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 possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play's terrifying denouement.

Co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play. "McDonagh is a natural storyteller who knows how to express a theme through action, and he knows how to create a gallery of fascinating rogues. The energy of his plays is prodigiousMcDonagh has managed to celebrate what remains enduring and alive in human nature even in the most appalling circumstances." - New Republic. "Mr. McDonagh[is] like a young version of Synge in exile whose voice, worn with sorrow and savage humor, owes a debt to Synge's Playboy of the Western WorldTHE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE is a gothic dark comedy." - NY Observer. "THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANEis clearly the product of a major writer. Indeed, on the basis of this play alone, I am willing to make the rash claim that McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the twenty-first century." - New Republic.