December 2011 – Beauty Queen of Leenane

  • Playwright – Martin McDonagh
  • Location – Harrogate Studio Theatre
  • Director – Stuart Kellett

Cast

  • Mag – Jenny Antram
  • Maureen – Clare Evans-Argent
  • Pato – Chris Rawson
  • Ray – Richard Naylor

Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, the play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Foley, a plain, lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother, whose interference in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying denouement.