These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there.<br><br><i>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</i> portrays ancient, manipulative Mag and her virginal daughter, Maureen, whose mutual loathing may be more durable than any love. In <i>A Skull in Connnemara</i>, Mick Dowd is hired to dig up the bones in the town churchyard, some of which belong to his late and oddly unlamented wife. And the brothers of <i>The Lonesome West</i> have no sooner buried their father than they are resuming the vicious and utterly trivial quarrel that has been the chief activity of their lives.<br><br>"[McDonagh is] the most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea.... He is a born storyteller."--<i>New York Times</i>