THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LENANE
- Director: David Tarba
- Theatre:City Theatre
- Hosting Theatre :Tbilisi City Theatre
- Date:
- 29 September - 17:00 hr,
Author Martin McDonagh
Director David Tarba
Scenography by Achiko Shamakhia
Costumes Designer Gvantsa Javakhihvili, Sandro
Margvelashvili
Choreographer George Tielidze
Composer Nika Kokhreidze
Assistant to the director Sophie Khundadze
Cast:
Mag Folan – Keti Tskhakaia
Maureen Folan – Ani Imnadze
Duration 120 min, No Intermission
On tour – 13 persons.
Genre – Tragic Comedy
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane", a play by Martin McDonagh, is a dark comedy that portrays
a modern world where fairy tale archetypes come to life. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is
Maureen Folan, a woman in her forties who is trapped at home by her mother. Due to a tragic
reason, Maureen is forced to care for her mother until her mother's death.
The play explores the impact of economic exploitation, emigration, poverty, and the postcolonial environment on people's lives. It also addresses themes of domestic violence and
mental health, and delves into how being confined in a closed space affects individuals and
how the people closest to us can limit our freedom, turning freedom from them into a distant dream.
Review
Linnaeus' Beauty Queen (based on the play by Martin McDonough) is a bold and uncompromising statement by
director David Tharba. Multidimensional - in terms of problem, genre and artistic form , the play combines
organically transitioning of drama, melodrama, romantic and communication "intrigue", erotica, detective;
ethnic, social, political or public conflict; It concentrates on imagination, reality, surreality, and finally, tragedy.
Along with raising political, ethnic and personal intolerance, for various reasons, unsolved personal or social
problems, the play also includes judgments about other contemporary and general human issues - about the
breakdown of relationships between people, unfulfilled dreams, unattainable goals, hopelessness, loneliness.
Lela Ochuauri , Art Critic, Professor of Theatre and Cinema University
We are "city theater"- a completely independent multifunctional space, which we build with
our own hands, and for the second year we are trying to create a space in Georgia, where
people who love theater will have the opportunity to come and get to know the “ kitchen” of
the theater up close - behind the scenes , backstage, the preparation and rehearsal process, see
and hear everything they are interested in. This is where the idea of the name of the theater
came from.
Our space is always open for young artists along with professional and experienced art
representatives. Students who are taking their first career steps with us are actively involved
in stage design and creation of costumes. Students - future directors, actors and
representatives of other artistic fields are also working with us . We also have volunteers who
participate directly in construction works, and most of them are students of various
universities.
Artistic Director Barabra Aslamazi
General Manager Konstantine Roinishvili
Contact Information: +995 511 19 29 95;
E-mail: tbilisicitytheatre@gmail.com
Web: www.citytheatre.ge
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