Beauty Queen of Leenane

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 potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific

"Exuberantly nervy and talented...[He] could be the most original, seriously pertinent Irish playwright in years" - Vincent Canby, New York Times