The Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of Theatre & Dance will present Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” at 7:30 p.m. March 24-27 in the Andreas Theatre of the Performing Arts Center.
It is the third show of the Studio Season and is directed by third-year MFA Directing candidate Megan Gredesky.
Set in 1989 in the small village of Leenane in Connemara, Ireland, the play centers on the life of Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old maid who is the sole caregiver to her 70-year-old mother Mag. When the Folan cottage is visited by the brothers Ray and Pato Dooley, the glimmer of a romance sparks up, then sputters out between Maureen and Pato. Ultimately, disaster results.
This show contains mature themes.
“The Beauty Queen of Leenane” premiered in 1996 in Galway, Ireland. It subsequently had a successful run in London and won four Tony Awards in New York. McDonagh has written two trilogies of plays. The first is set in Leenane, a small village on the west coast of Ireland, and includes this play. He wrote and directed his first full-length feature film, “In Bruges,” for which he won a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nomination in 2008.
Individual tickets for “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” are $9 regular, $8 for senior citizens, youth 16 and under and groups of 15 or more, and $7 for current Minnesota State Mankato students. They are available online now at www.MSUTheatre.com, or by calling or visiting the Theatre & Dance Box Office in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center from 4-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, beginning March 22.
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