The beauty queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
Contributors: Royal Court Theatre
Series: Royal Court writers series
Publisher: Methuen Drama in association with the Royal Court Theatre
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Drama; Mothers and daughters
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 ageing 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 toward the play's terrifying denouement.