The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Posted on May 28, 2013

Welcome back for a very special episode of Novel Ideas. This week we’re departing slightly from our norm and discussing a play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh. And we’re doing it with a special guest, our cousin Sara, who is studying playwrighting? playwriting? One of those. This play is a very black comedy/psychological drama about insane people who hate each other, featuring mental illness, unreliable/untrustworthy characters, manipulative behavior, and murder. We also discuss whether “Irish” is a genre, the tendency of little brothers to ruin everything, and how podcasts, unlike plays, are not a visual medium.

The music bump is Delia Murphy’s “The Spinning Wheel,” for Mag on the occasion of her seventy-first birthday.

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One thought on “The Beauty Queen of Leenane”

Tuckerconley@yahoo.com said:
June 1, 2013 at 11:10 am

You guys should consider doing a podcast on the fifth wave or maze runner the first book of a three part series awesome books

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