The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Maureen, a lonely spinster, lives with her diabolically manipulative mother Mag in an isolated cottage in the west of Ireland. Mag whines and bullies to get her way while Maureen resentfully fulfills her mother’s every command. When Maureen is offered a last chance at love, she sees a chance to escape. But Mag has other ideas, setting in motion a chain of deceptions, secrets, and betrayals that are both heartbreaking and hilarious in an award-winning Irish dark comedy that surprises audiences through to its horrifying conclusion. “[A] brilliantly subversive black comedy…excellent” – Washington Post. “A superb staging” – Washingtonian