Word: mcdonagh
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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...
What is innovative about McDonagh's play is the psychological intensity of his characters and their complex relationship to their squalid surroundings. And fortunately for the Sugan Theater's production, Engels clearly understands the significance of these two aspects. The interactions of Mag and Maureen are given vital importance. The mother and daughter face off like two ferrets in a small cage; behind their petty tauntings and quick-paced reportage of insults, one can see how intent each woman is on destroying the other. Susan Zeeman Roger's set-dirty and sparsely furnished, with a rain machine adding a backdrop...