num_pages: 80
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
publisher: Methuen Drama