The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Will Steinberger
The action of The Beauty of Queen Leenane takes place in the kitchen of a run-down cottage in the Irish village Leenane where Maureen, a 40 year old spinster, lives with and cares for her older mother, Mag. While Maureen's other sisters have managed to escape into the real world, Maureen has been left trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with her mother, in which they each manipulate and harm the other to win any small personal battle in their ongoing war. For Maureen, hope comes with the visits of Pato Dooley and his younger brother Ray, who similarly feel trapped by the tediousness and limitations of their everyday lives. This blend of black comedy, melodrama, and tragedy gives us a peak into the lives of those on the fringes of society and comments overall on the corruptibility and emptiness of the modern world.
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Will Steinberger
Will is junior English major. Directing work at Penn includes Eurydice and Quills for iNtuitons, An Inmate (2008 Alternative Theatre Festival; also writer), and The American Dream (2008 One Acts Festival). For Front Row, Will has directed the first workshop productions of Mistaken and Margarita , the past two winning plays of the annual playwriting fellowship. Will also has an original play in the 2009 Alternative Theatre Festival/Philly Fringe. As an actor at Penn, Will has appeared as Phil in Boys Life (Quadramics), Morris Kaden, et al. in As Bees in Honey Drown (Front Row), Magnus Muldoon in The Real Inspector Hound (Small Fall 2009), Templeton, et al. in Charlotte's Web (Stim), and Bill in Icarus's Mother (One Acts 2009). Work in high school included directing Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan . Will serves as the treasurer of iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Company and on the Student Performing Arts Advisory Committee. He has studied at the Walnut Street Theater and interned at New York Theatre Workshop.
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