#leenane

[womblegrinch]

Paul Henry (1877-1958) - Near Leenane

Oil on canvasboard. Painted c.1935-38.

14 x 16 inches, 35.6 x 40.6 cm. Estimate: €80,000-120,000.

Sold Adam's, Dublin, 6 Dec 2023 for €80,000 + B.P.

[dynamobooks]

Martin McDonagh: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996)

[warrior-u-preservation]

Recreation of this thumb found on the official DA through the wayback machine.

[robynsassenmyview]

Murder, most blunt

"Murder, most blunt", a review of The Pillowman directed by Ildi Kungl at Theatre on the Square, until 2 March 2025.

TELL me a bedtime story: Michal (Wentzel Lombard) lies down while his brother, Katurian (Hugh Becker), lulls him to sleep in a scene from The Pillowman at Theatre on the Square until 2 March 2025. Photograph by Phillip Kuhn. HOW DO YOU convincingly represent a conglomeration of evil, intellectual handicap, a plot which twists and turns at the flick of an eyebrow and an understanding of truth…

[strazcenter]

Jobsite’s Love Affair With McDonagh

By David M. Jenkins In 2003 we staged our first play by London-bred Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. During that run, Straz Center then-CEO Judy Lisi made us an offer to become their resident theater company and effectively take over programming of the Shimberg Playhouse. Now that our residency is old enough to drink, we’re returning to this pitch-black tale as part…

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[wisco-warrior]

Marja Leenan Photo

[inky-duchess]

hello hello!

do you have list of irish literature (fiction or nonfiction) that you could recommend to me?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Dubliners by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Small Things like These by Claire Keegan

Terror on the Burren by Ré Ó Laighléis

Gafa by Ré Ó Laighléis

Room by Emma Donoghue

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea by JM Synge

Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna

You will notice that Frank McCourt isn't here. That's because he's a fucking liar and Angela's Ashes is all lies.

[holyfigtree]

favorite reads 2024:

intermezzo, sally rooney birnam wood, eleanor catton last of her kind, sigrid nunez devotions, mary oliver the beauty queen of leenane, martin mcdonagh wretched of the earth, frantz fanon braiding sweetgrass, robin wall kimmerer (audiobook) wellness, nathan hill (audiobook)

[worldismyne]

Rose and her Bear Prince Gregor.

He stumbled into an old curse Leenan left behind by proposing to Rose on the family property. The spell is so old, they're not quite sure how to break it.

She kind of forgot to give him an answer in all the chaos.

[skyofdarkmatter42]

I'm reading the beauty queen of leenane and I can't stop imagining everyone as Colin Farrell I'm not even joking😭😭

[dynamobooks]

Martin McDonagh: The Lonesome West (1997)

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[jordanraye47]

I really like her so im getting creative

you guys are really bad at this

[orym-blossoms]

Straight up Beauty Queen of Leenane in here 😮

[do-you-know-this-play]

top girls by caryl churchill, some explicit polaroids by mark ravenhill, shopping and fucking by mark ravenhill, 4:48 psychosis by sarah kane, crave by sarah kane, burgerz by travis alabanza, womberang by sue townsend, ten tiny fingers nine tiny toes by sue townsend, black watch by gregory burke, thebans by liz lochhead, the james plays by rona munro, the cheviot the stag and the black black oil by john mcgrath, salt by selina thompson, hungry by chris bush, precious little talent by ella hickson, hot mess by ella hickson, the pillowman by martin mcdonagh, the beauty queen of leenane by martin mcdonagh.

just some of my faves off the top of my head! to add some contemporary british/irish writing to your repertoire hehe. this blog has made my theatre studies academic heart very happy!

thank you so much for all of these!!