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The Beauty Queen of Leenane

by Martin McDonagh

Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, lives with her ageing and manipulative mother, Mag. Many years she has spend looking after and caring for her mother. One day, it seems like Maureen might be able to escape from her sad and depressing life when she thinks she has met the man of her dreams. But Mag succeeds in interfering with her daughter’s first and possible final chance of a loving relationship, and this interference sets in motion a train of terrible and consequently fatal events, marred with violence, hate, and despair ...