Mother’s Way

It’s an exhausting week, with five openings back-to-back in five days. The first of them is Mark Jackson’s staging of Marin Theatre Company’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh’s often hilarious, aching and brutal portrait of a needy and manipulative elderly mother and her resentful 40-year-old daughter/caretaker. My review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal.

Rod Gnapp, Beth Wilmurt and Joy Carlin in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Photo by Kevin Berne.

Theater review: Ugly behavior charms in MTC’s ‘Beauty Queen’

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Through June 16
Marin Theatre Company
397 Miller Ave.
Mill Valley, CA
www.marintheatre.org

Show #54 of 2013, attended May 28.