The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Maureen Folan is a 40-year-old spinster, a native of the village of Leenane, Connemara in Ireland. Her sisters have each escaped into marriage and family life, leaving Maureen, trapped as the sole carer of her manipulative septuagenarian mother Mag. Maureen's horizons are suddenly expanded beyond the narrow confines of the dysfunctional relationship with her mother by the visit of Pat O'Dooley and his enigmatic brother Ray.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a blend of black comedy, melodrama and bleak tragedy resulting from a destructive mutual dependency. McDonagh's trademark comic spirit ranges artfully from jovial sunlight into implacable darkness. His Pillowman was a highlight of the People's Spring & Summer Season 2010.
Production Photographs by Jim Mohan
| Cast | |
| Mag Folan | Anne Cater |
| Maureen Folan | Moira Valentine |
| Ray Dooley | Joe McLaughlin |
| Pato Dooley | Peter Harrison |
| Production Team | |
| Director | Hugh Keegan |
| Assistant Director | Kay Worswick |
| Stage Manager | Lisa Harrison |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Laura Whittaker |
| Set Design | Peter Moat |
| Set Construction | Peter Harrison, Darren Nelson, Peter Moat |
| Set Painter | Peter Moat |
| Lighting Design | Andy Glancey |
| Lighting Operators | Jo Blackett, Catherine Edwards |
| Sound | John Carr, Dave Harvey |
| Wardrobe | Linda Girling |
| Properties | Miranda Barty-Taylor, Lewis Cutrhbert, Karen Elliott, Rye Mattick, Helen Poole, Hazel Temperley, Kate Wilkins |
| Crew | Dave Bailey |
| Wigs | Christopher Carr |
