The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre) London Reviews and Tickets

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Funny, Well-acted, Clever

About the Show

Rachel O’Riordan's revival of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy about love and a mother's manipulation.

County Galway. Maureen's mother is a force to be reckoned with, and when this isolated daughter finds a shot at love, her mother proves just what a force she can be. This revival of the award-winning play by Martin McDonagh ("The Lieutenant of Inishmore", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, "Missouri") stars Ingrid Craigie ("The Cripple of Inishmaan") and Kwaku Fortune ("Line of Duty").

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Show-Score Member Reviews (1)

90

Well-acted, Funny, Clever

See it if you're a fan of McDonagh, you like plays that are slightly sick and twisted, or you want a quirky comedy that makes you a little sad.

Don't see it if you struggle with accents or you might get upset at the play about emotional abuse. Read more

Critic Reviews (2)

What a fiendishly clever play this is, written when McDonagh was in his mid-twenties. Deliciously unsavoury (and, yes, sometimes violent), it nevertheless hums with weighty literary resonances and moral purpose.
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‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ is a fierce and gloomy work...The power of McDonagh’s play is more in the playful language and stifling atmosphere than the plotting, which is engineered to take us nowhere.
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Creative team

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Martin McDonagh

Rachel O'Riordan