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Article: 'Beauty Queen,' Missing Congeniality
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 2, 2005
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The setup of "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" couldn't seem more
tender: In an Irish mountain village, Maureen Folan, the fair miss of
the title, cares for Mag, her getting-on-in-years mum, who likes to
sit in her favorite chair with a blanket over her lap. Maureen cooks
her mother porridge on their wood-burning stove, and they pass the
time listening to the radio.
Maureen also tells Mag stories -- her favorite being a most
graphic daydream in which Maureen lures a murderer to their shabby
home to do away with the old bat for good. When Mag points out that
the criminal would probably kill Maureen, too, the fed-up daughter
decides that it'd be an acceptable price to pay.
So the Folans aren't ...