<i>The Beauty Queen of Leenane </i>was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. <br />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 ageing 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. <br /><br />