Title: The beauty queen of Leenane
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.
Subjects: Drama, Mothers and daughters, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
Places: Connemara (Ireland)