"The Beauty Queen of Leenane," a dark Irish yarn both comic and tragic, opens at the Detroit Public Theatre Thursday and runs through May 26. After 6 sell out shows and standings ovations they are proud to represent the West with this powerful piece of Drama. St Patrick’s Drama Group return with The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh for one night before departing for the City of Chicago. Don’t miss Yael Stone and Noni Hazlehurst in the savagely funny hit play The Beauty Queen of Leenane. « The Beauty Queen Of Leenane The Beauty Queen Of Leenane » Set in Leenane in County Galway, Martin McDonagh’s first play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother. THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE By Martin McDonagh Directed by Paige Rattray. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is steeped in the poverty, poetry, anguished loveliness and punishing Catholicism of Ireland before the transformative Celtic Tiger economic miracle. Maureen Folan ( Yael Stone ) lives with and cares for her mother Mag ( Noni Hazlehurst ) in slovenly privation. The Beauty Queen of Leenane February 27th - March 29th, 2020. In a small Irish town in the hills of Connemara, Maureen Folan lives a lonely existence with Mag, her aged mother. Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Reviewed – 31st October 2019 ★★★★ “From the banal domesticity of the outset, Mark Babych’s direction … The Beauty Queen Of Leenane. Physical cruelty that is horrifyingly believable is layered on top of continual mental abuse. ‘ The Beauty Queen of Leenane ’ is not for the faint hearted.