Garry Hynes is bringing back Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane
In January 1996, Druid Theatre Company premiered a play in Galway that was to have a considerable impact on the company’s future direction and a colossal effect on the fortunes of its young writer, Martin McDonagh.
Travelling to Broadway in 1997, The Beauty Queen of Leenane took America by storm, winning four Tony Awards — one for director Garry Hynes, and three for actors Marie Mullen, Anna Manahan, and Tom Murphy. Twenty years on from those heady days, Hynes is again at the helm for a new production of the play, with Mullen — who played the frustrated daughter dreaming of escape — now returning to take on the part of her one-time antagonist, the cunning, embittered elderly mother originally played by Manahan.
