CityLife

Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, Martin McDonagh's 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain, lonely woman in her early 40s, and Mag, her manipulative, ageing mother, whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads to tragedy.

CityLife review

THE mother-daughter relationship is a ready source of tension, especially when the mother is a housebound manipulative old woman and the daughter frustrated, unmarried and middle-aged.more