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Article: `The Beauty Queen of Leenane'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- July 19, 1999
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`The Beauty Queen of Leenane' Through Aug. 29 Steppenwolf Theatre,
1650 N. Halsted Tickets: $35-39; (312) 335-1650 Somewhat recommended
Watching Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" is the
theatrical equivalent of reading the gruesome tales in a supermarket
scandal sheet. And if you look closely - beyond the fine
performances of the actors in the Steppenwolf Theatre production that
opened this weekend - you will realize his play has just about as
much depth as those tales.
But of course you devour the details, lured by the cheap thrill of
seeing just how cruel and sadistic one human being can be to another.
Given the long record of man's inhumanity to man, all this should
come as ...