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Beauty Queen

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Genre
Drama

Winner of the Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and Writers' Guild awards for Best New Play

High in the mountains of Galway live a lonely spinster Maureen and her devilishly manipulative mother Mag. Maureen longs for the romance that will spirit her away. But if she goes, who will stir the lumps out of Mag's Complan?

An instant classic from its first performance, Beauty Queen established Martin McDonagh as the natural successor to Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton. After world wide success, this is the first major London revival of this horrifically funny play.

Oscar and Bafta-winning Martin McDonagh's other films and plays include In Bruges and The Pillowman.

'Biting black comedy with a heart of deeper darkness'
The Independent