The Beauty Queen of Leenane

by Martin McDonagh

Drama/Black Comedy

Cast:  2 men, 2 women

Director:  T.S. Samland  email: python054@hotmail.com

 

Auditions:  April 21-22 7 PM at Olympia Little Theatre

Production Dates: 

7:55pm: Jun 6, 7, 12, 13, 14

1:55pm: Jun 15

     

Story:Maureen Folan, plain, lonely and aging, has lived for too long in isolated Leenane,
County Galway, with her manipulative, elderly mother, Mag, when the precious opportunity
for love presents itself at last. Mag has other ideas and her interference sets in motion a train
of events that leads inexorably towards a ghastly resolution, revealing along the way a set of
tragic, desperate lives.

 

Rated MA: explicit language, adult themes, and references to violence; character death
(Contains explicit c
ontent for mature adults only)

 

Characters:

Maureen Folan

Female, 30s-40s

a spinster who takes care of her mother; she has a history of mental illness

Mag Folan

Female, 60s

Demanding and manipulative; she expects her daughter to wait on her hand-and-foot

Pato Dooley

Male, 40s

a construction worker disappointed by the limitations and loneliness of his life

Ralph “Ray” Dooley

Male, 20s-30s

Pato’s younger brother; an irrepressible and irresponsible young man