Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays

English

Series: Vintage International Ser.

ISBN: 0375704876

EAN: 9780375704871

Category: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 09/30/1998

Synopsis: These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there. The Beauty Queen of Leenaneportrays ancient, manipulative Mag and her virginal daughter, Maureen, whose mutual loathing may be more durable than any love. In A Skull in Connnemara, Mick Dowd is hired to dig up the bones in the town churchyard, some of which belong to his late and oddly unlamented wife. And the brothers of The Lonesome Westhave no sooner buried their father than they are resuming the vicious and utterly trivial quarrel that has been the chief activity of their lives. [McDonagh is] the most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea.... He is a born storyteller.-- New York Times

Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.57 inches

Width: 5.12 inches

Length: 8.03 inches

Weight: 7.23 oz

Pages: 272