by Martin McDonagh
directed by Mark A. Rhea
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
directed Mark A. Rhea
Performances:
June 23- July 23, 2005
Thur, Fri, Sat - 8 PM
Sun matinees - 2 PM
Church Street Theater:
1742 Church Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Featuring:
Nanna Ingvarsson as Maureen
Linda High as Mag
Scott Graham as Pato
Joe Baker as Ray
Running Time: 2 hrs |
A Potomac Stages Pick for four strong performances of an emotionally charged play
Washington Post Eidtor's Pick
Set in the dingy, grimy cottage of a chicken farm in the mountain village of Leenane, in Connemara, County Galway, Beauty Queen is the deeply dark tale of a deceitful, disagreeable, insecure aging woman who manipulates, nags, and interferes with the life of her single, plain, lonely middle-aged daughter. Ultimately, the mother’s manipulation and the daughter’s frustration and resentment set into motion a series of alarmingly tragic events.
“The extraordinary achievement of this play is that it is wildly funny, deeply affecting and grotesquely macabre all at the same time. During its most potent scenes you don't know whether to laugh, cry or gasp with horror."
—Michael Billington, THE GUARDIAN
"McDonagh is a natural storyteller who knows how to express a theme through action, and he knows how to create a gallery of fascinating rogues. The energy of his plays is prodigious. . .McDonagh has managed to celebrate what remains enduring and alive in human nature even in the most appalling circumstances."
—New Republic
". Mr. McDonagh…[is] like a young version of Synge in exile whose voice, worn with sorrow and savage humor, owes a debt to Synge's Playboy of the Western World . . .THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE is a gothic dark comedy."
—NY Observer
". . .THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE. . . is clearly the product of a major writer. Indeed, on the basis of this play alone, I am willing to make the rash claim that McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the twenty-first century."
—New Republic
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is co-winner 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
GETTING THERE:
Church Street Theater is in the Dupont Circle area -
between 17th & 18th and Q & P Streets, N.W
By Metro: Dupont Circle Metro - Red Line
By Automobile: If you drive, please allow time for finding parallel parking spot, --or alternatively, plan to park in one of the nearby parking garages:
Colonial Parking at 1616 P Street NW
--$5 after 5:30 PM; closes at 11 PM Mon-Thurs, and midnight Fri-Sun)
Colonial Parking at 1919 Massachusetts Ave, NW
