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Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane
County Galway, northwestern Ireland. Old Mag Folan and her spinster
daughter Maureen are locked in a battle o f shrewd wits and iron wills, each
spending her days harboring ancient grudges, plotting revenge and reveling
in tiny victories. M aureen’s last chance for romance lies in Pat O ’Dooley,
a good natured neighbor, but Mag is determined to thwart the relationship.
“M cDonagh takes the audience on a roller coaster ride o f comic hilarity,
cruelty, suspense and surprise,” Nause says. “This is Irish storytelling at
its best - with a fresh, modem twist.”
Previews run at 7 pm. on Sunday, September 3 and Tuesday-Thursday,
September 5-7. The play opens Friday, September 8 and runs at 7 pm.
W ednesdays and Thursdays, 8 pm. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 pm. and
Sundays through October 15, with added performances at 7 pm. the last
two Tuesdays, October 3 and 10, and a final performance at 7 pm., October
15.
Preview tickets are $ 13.50. Regular tickets are $22 Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Sunday. Seniors are $17; students $15. Tickets for Friday
and Saturday are $26 regular/senior; $15 students.
For more ticket information, call 503/241-1 ART.
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The Broadway smash hit by one o f Britain’s hottest new writers
will open the 2000-2001 season o f Artists Repertory Theatre.
Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen o f Leenane, directed by
Allen Nause, will preview Sunday, September 3 and run through
Sunday, October 15, 2000.
W inner o f four Tony Awards, The Beauty Queen o f Leenane also
received the 1998 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards
for Best Broadway Play as well as the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award
for Best New Play.
The Beauty Queen o f Leenane unfolds in a bleak, rural cottage in