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...role of Mag Folan is a difficult one, for it demands that the actor navigate Mag's hairpin turns of character with absolute authority. Mary Klug triumphs in her role, giving her character a keenly humorous sense of self-awareness. She is both charming and hateful, both pathetically helpless and maliciously cunning. Susanne Nitter as Maureen also handles the diverse nuances of her character with great ease. Alternately imperious and juvenile, she resembles nothing so much as a rebellious teenager encountering a midlife crisis. Next to these harpies, the two supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry...
...Yanks do love the Irish," contemplates Maureen Folan near the end of Martin McDonagh's 1996 play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Indeed, nothing proves this fact so much as the remarkable success of McDonagh's play, which, since its debut four years ago, has garnered four Tony awards and helped to secure McDonagh's reputation on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most promising young playwrights of his generation. Eric Engel's new direction of the play, currently running at the Boston Center for the Arts, proves the mettle of McDonagh's script. Presented...
Admittedly, the plot line of The Beauty Queen of Leenane is not breathtakingly original. Set in the 1960s in the obscure village of Leenane in the county Connemara, it tells the story of a prototypical dysfunctional family. Maureen Folan is a forty-year-old woman stuck in a dismal job and still living with her mother in a tiny countryside shanty. Mag Folan is a crotchety 70 year old with a urinary infection and a nasty habit of emptying her bedpan in the dish sink. Maureen is offered a route of escape when Pato Dooley, a man of roughly...
...Eagles tallied their only points when Boston College's 190-pound Peter Folan earned a pin at the 44 second mark of the first period...
Persuasive Manner. Nondogmatic American yoga is about to get its biggest shot in the pelvis, and from no guru. On 124 stations throughout the U.S., PBS will air three color shows a week featuring yoga demonstrations by Lilias Folan, a charming and svelte Cincinnati housewife. Folan, who has already become a success on Cincinnati's WCET-TV, producer of her current show, has sold 35,000 copies of a book called Lilias, Yoga and You (with a Braille version that allows the blind to feel embossed pictures of Lilias doing the Cat Stretch). With a persuasive manner that...