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Dorset Theatre Festival – The Beauty Queen of Leenane

June 26 @ 7:30pm-9:30pm

|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 7:30pm on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until July 5, 2024

An event every week that begins at 2:00pm on Sunday, repeating until July 6, 2024

ABOUT THE PLAY
A 6-time Tony Award-Nominated play by Academy Award-Winning playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director, Martin McDonagh, recently known for blockbusters films like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). Directed by Dorset’s Resident Playwright and Emmy and Pulitzer Prize Nominee Theresa Rebeck.

In this darkly comic Irish tale, 40-year-old spinster Maureen Folan is good and stuck in the house she grew up in, caring for her aging mother, Mag. Mag is a nightmare and their mutual antagonism hits a new level when Maureen’s first, and possibly final, chance at love suddenly appears. Who’s most vulnerable? Who’s scheming the most? Who’s crazy? Is anyone? The laughably dysfunctional relationship of these two isolated souls in rural Ireland comes to a boiling point when the possibility of romance, or even survival, sets in motion a train of tragically funny yet heartbreaking events.

“In the telling, this play seems as clear as day. When you look back on it, it’s the shadows that you can’t stop thinking about.”
— BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES

SCHEDULE

WEEK ONE:
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 – 7:30 PM (PREVIEW)
*SATURDAY, JUNE 22 – 7:30 PM (OPENING NIGHT)
SUNDAY, JUNE 23 – 2:00 PM

WEEK TWO
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 – 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, JUNE 27 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 28 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 – 2:00 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY JUNE 30 – 2:00 PM

WEEK THREE:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 – 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, JULY 4 – 2:00 PM (July 4th Matinee)
FRIDAY, JULY 5- 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JULY 6 – 2:00 PM (Closing Performance)

Details

Date:
June 26
Time:
7:30pm-9:30pm
Website:
https://dorsettheatrefestival.org/

Organizer

Dorset Theatre Festival
Phone
(802) 867-2223
Email
dtf@dorsettheatrefestival.org
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Venue

Dorset Playhouse
104 Cheney Road
Dorset, VT 05251 United States
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Phone
(802) 867-2223
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