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Article: Production of Tony-winning `Beauty Queen' on the mark.(VARIETY)

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Playwright Martin McDonagh has critics babbling comparisons to J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and Eugene O'Neill for his revival of the Irish voice. Well, at the risk of a less-conventional analogy, try this on for size: Flannery O'Connor.

At the heart of McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" is a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship spun out in a stifling rural backwater with dark comedy and violent retribution - all told in rich dialect that matters as much as the story.

McDonagh, not yet 30, has signaled with "Beauty Queen" his importance as a theatrical force, despite a stated preference for films (Martin Scorsese) and TV (Australian soap operas) ...

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