<DIV><DIV>Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><DIV>The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. </DIV></DIV><P></P></DIV>