num_pages: 56
description: 
  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 potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific. 
   
  
    The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. 
  
  

language: English
title: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
titlecomplete: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
characters: Ray Dooley, Maureen Folan
genres: Theatre, Drama, Ireland, College, Irish Literature, Plays, School, 20th Century, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 2803
series: The Leenane Trilogy
publisher: Dramatists Play Service