The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid
Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996.
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of
Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and
lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing
mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving
relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically
funny as it is horrific.