The director on the renewed power of Martin McDonagh's 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' 25 years on The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a vicious, sad and extraordinary play. On the surface, Martin McDonagh's play, first seen 25 years ago and revived now in a collaboration between Chichester Festival Theatre and my home base, the Lyric Hammersmith, is about a toxic, dysfunctional relationship between a mother and daughter …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:03PM on October 12, 2021