Theater review: The Beauty Queen of Leenane comes to Brooklyn
Tantalizingly, the first half of Beauty Queen is almost a pared-down Celtic riff on The Glass Menagerie: overbearing mother, daughter with mental problems, a gentleman caller (Marty Rea) who offers escape from a stifling household. For a fourth presence, there's no Tom Wingfield waxing lyrical on the sidelines; instead it's Ray Dooley (Aaron Monaghan), an imbecilic local who, unbeknownst to him, figures large in the …