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Article: COMPLEX ``BEAUTY QUEEN'' IS A SUCCESS.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- January 24, 1999
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, THEATER CRITIC
When love turns to hate, the results can be devastating. Take for example the mother and daughter in ``The Beauty Queen of Leenane,'' the stunningly effective and ultimately disturbing new play at the Wells Theatre.
In the production, familiarity breeds not only contempt but outright loathing - leading to an emotional fight to the death with sarcasm as the main weapon.
Forty-year-old Maureen has lived her life with her crabby, controlling old mum in an isolated cottage in western Ireland. Mag, the harridan of a mother, wants porridge on demand, whining about her rights as ``an old woman'' and effectively ...