The Beauty Queen of Leenane " review
Young Vic, LondonYou can scent the outcome of Martin McDonagh's 1996 debut play as surely as visitors to the home of Mag and Maureen Folan can smell pee in the kitchen sink. This tale of a conniving mother and her embittered daughter trapped in rural Ireland may be well made, but every stitch of its construction is visible. The plot unfolds in a series of unashamed cliches; its themes, of isolation, escapism, fa…