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...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...
...With reporting by Melissa August/Washington, Julie Grace/Chicago, Maureen Harrington/Gillette, Hilary Hylton/Austin, Sylvester Monroe/Daytona Beach and James Willwerth/Los Angeles
...With reporting by Melissa August/Washington, Julie Grace/Chicago and Maureen Harrington/Denver
...nice when they bring women together. A lot of the time there aren't visible role models because it's a pretty male-dominated field," said Maureen P. Murphy '01, who attended the McKinsey function...