Full casting announced for THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE by Oscar winner Martin McDonagh

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Written By Emmie Newitt
Leenane casting

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre have announced full casting for their upcoming production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

The production, from the writer of award-winning blockbuster films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, will open on 3 September. 

Joining the cast will be Orla Fitzgerald, Adam Best, Ingrid Craigie and Kwaku Fortune for this highly anticipated major revival of McDonagh’s darkly comic debut play, which will open at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester before transferring to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre from 9 October to 6 November. 

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, Maureen Folan – a plain, lonely woman, tied to her manipulative and ageing mother, Mag – comes alive at her first and possibly last prospect of a new life. But Mag has other ideas; and her interference sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play’s breathtaking conclusion.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane will be directed by Rachel O’Riordan, designed by Good Teeth Theatre, with lighting by Kevin Treacy, and music and sound by Anna Clock.

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Emmie Newitt

Emmie is a Learning Support Assistant in a primary school and online content creator from the East Midlands, but her heart most definitely lies within the theatre. She trained in Dance and this is where her love for writing began. Emmie launched her own blog, Carpe Diem Emmie, in 2014 and it continues to be a thriving hub for the best in the East Midlands, especially when it comes to the art scene there. Emmie is a self-confessed theatre obsessive and is thrilled to be part of the West End Best Friend team!

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