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Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996.
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 ageing 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.Book Details
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2011
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.10in - 0.20in - 0.15lb
- EAN: 9780413707307
- Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
McDonagh, Martin: - Martin McDonagh is a London-born Irish playwright whose first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was the 1996 winner of the George Devine Award. It also won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Fringe Play and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. The play was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. Since then McDonagh has gone on to write multiple smash-hit shows and films and win multiple awards including an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for Six Shooter (2005), an Oscar nomination, a British Independent Film Award for best screenplay, an Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Film Script and a BAFTA for best original screenplay, all for In Bruges (starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, 2008), and a Laurence Olivier award for Best New Play for The Pillowman (won 2004).
Praise for this book
"He (McDonagh) offers all the familiar delights of farce and melodrama, while at the same time offering a powerful critique of contemporary Ireland." --Michael Billington, Guardian, 22.07.10
"Martin McDonagh's play...is not the callous thing that we often hail as;black comedy', but a richly human illustration of that tragicomic paradox. If it wasn't so funny it would be squalid" --Libby Purves, The Times, 22.07.10 "The dramatic tension McDonagh creates is brilliantly sustained, while the sudden twists and turns of the plot elicit genuine gasps of surprise from the audience." --Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 23.07.10 "His (McDonagh's) ear for the Irish rhythms and the absurdities of everyday speech is matchless." --Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday, 01.08.10 "Martin McDonagh is one of the top playwrights to have emerged in the 1990's" --Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail, 06.08.10