Until 29 June, the Teatro Reina Victoria in Madrid presents the play La reina de la belleza de Leenane, written by Martin McDonagh, adapted by Bernardo Sánchez and directed by Juan Echanove, and played by María Galiana as Mag and Lucía Quintana, as Maureen, in her main roles.
A house perched on a hill in the outskirts of Leenane. In the region of Connemara, North-West Ireland. Mid 1990s. Mag Folan and his daughter Maureen have been living alone for twenty years. Her two other married daughters live far away from Leenane and Maureen, who remains single at over forty years of age, has to take care of the feeding and other care of her mother, very limited movements, even badly injured in one hand.
Their respective characters, tainted by silence and lies and marked by domestic routines, a strained and repressed motherhood relationship, traumatic acts of the near past and a history of reciprocal damage to be revealed throughout the action, will be upset by a local episode: the eventual return to Leenane of Dooley Duck, who works as a labourer in London, on the occasion of a family farewell party to an uncle returning to America after the holidays. The circumstances will lead to the reunion of Pato and Maureen, which will provoke an obvious displeasure in the elderly woman, as well as a chain of situations between mother and daughter with dramatic consequences, and visits to the house of Mag and Maureen by Ray Dooley, younger brother of Pato, a boy with short social and work expectations.
On the one hand, the relationship between Pato and Maureen after the party, besides encelating Mag, will create a state of self-delusion in Maureen and sharp confrontation with her mother. While, on the other hand, the concealment of news, messages and a letter by the mother, especially one in which Pato proposes to Maureen to go with him to Boston, will lead to a violent outcome, whose stage will remain the immutable space of the salon-kitchen-dining room of the house. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
