Martin McDonagh

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Dark comedy about a woman caring for her abusive elderly mother in Ireland

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Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh

McDonagh emerged from the mid-1990s as the most provocatively entertaining playwright on the British and Irish stage, writing savage black comedies set in a darkly mythologized rural Ireland. The Beauty Queen of Leenane established his reputation overnight.

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