The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Written by	Martin McDonagh
Characters	Mag Folan Maureen Folan Ray Dooley Pato Dooley
Date premiered	1996
Place premiered	Galway, Ireland
Original language	English
Subject	a plain and lonely woman in her forties with her first and possibly final chance at love; and her manipulative mother who sets about to derail it
Genre	Drama
Setting	Leenane, a village in Connemara, County Galway

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1996 black comedy by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh which was premiered by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, Ireland. It also enjoyed successful runs at London's West End, Broadway and Off-Broadway.

It was nominated for an Olivier Award as Best Play for the London production, and the 1998 Broadway production was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning four, for Best Leading Actress in a Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play and Best Direction of a Play.

The play received its world premiere when the Druid Theatre Company opened the production at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway on 1 February 1996. It then toured Ireland, stopping off in Longford, Kilkenny and Limerick. It transferred to London's West End, where it opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 29 February 1996.

The Druid production then returned to Ireland to embark on an extensive national tour, playing in Galway, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Fermanagh, Donegal and Derry amongst others. The play returned to London where it was revived at the Duke of York's Theatre on 29 November 1996 for several months.

The play was produced as part of Druid's Leenane Trilogy (which includes two other plays by Martin McDonagh) in 1997 where it played as part of another Irish and UK Tour, which included stops at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin and the Royal Court Theatre in London (July to September 1997) again.

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