LA REINA DE LA BELLEZA DE LEENANE

 

LA REINA DE LA BELLEZA DE LEENANE

[WOMEN'S THEATER. With the collaboration of Área de Igualdad de Oportunidades del Ayuntamiento de Málaga]
MARÍA GALIANA, 'MÁLAGA DE TEATRO' AWARD 2025

[The beauty queen of Leenane]
Okapi Producciones
Author Martin McDonagh
Adaptation Bernardo Sánchez
With María Galiana, Lucía Quintana, Javier Mora and Alberto Fraga
Stage direction Juan Echanove

1.30 h (w/out intermission)
okapiproducciones.com

photo ©Sergio Parra

McDonagh's text is about loneliness and family relationships in the most deprived and depopulated areas of our world.
A house perched on a hill on the outskirts of Leenane, Ireland, in the mid-1990s. Mag Folan and her daughter Maureen have lived alone for twenty years. Her two other married daughters live away from Leenane and Maureen, who is still single in her forties, has to provide food and other care for her mother, who is very limited in her movements, even with a badly injured hand. Their respective characters, tainted by silences and lies, and marked by domestic routines, by a tense and repressive maternal-filial relationship, by traumatic acts from the near past and by a history of reciprocal damage that will be revealed throughout the action, will be altered by a local episode: the eventual return to Leenane of Pato Dooley, and the visits to Mag and Maureen's house by Ray Dooley, Pato's younger brother, a boy with low social and work expectations.
This version by Juan Echanove and Bernardo Sánchez of The beauty queen of Leenane (1996), debut work by Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh (The pillowman, The cripple of Inishmaan) is an outstanding lesson in theater with a realistic staging, steeped in gothic horror.

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