The Beauty Queen of Leenane
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Opened Nov 12, 1999
Closed Jan 7, 2000
Opened Nov 12, 1999
Closed Jan 7, 2000
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Maureen Folan lives with her aging and demanding mother, providing her with care even as her own life possibilities evaporate. At a last chance at love and the desperate need for change moves her to commit an act that seems both lurid and courageous.-bb
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Youthful Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has a talent for instilling an undulating vein of comedy within the most angst-ridden, emotionally dysfunctional stage characters. This has led to successful productions of his plays in London and New York. Now in its Southern California premiere at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa is The Beauty Queen of Leenane, McDonagh's four-character study of the vitriolic relationship between the aged, misanthropic widow Mag (Anne Gee Byrd) and her bitter, 40-year-old spinster daughter Maureen (Heather Ehlers). The play is often as hilarious as it is bitterly cruel. And if director Andrew J. Robinson's leisurely pacing doesn't always serve the dialo[...]