{"id":804416,"date":"2020-02-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379256"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:00:00","slug":"visit-the-mountains-of-connemara-in-the-beauty-queen-of-leenane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/visit-the-mountains-of-connemara-in-the-beauty-queen-of-leenane\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit the mountains of Connemara in \u2018The Beauty Queen of Leenane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Brf-Leenane-SDN-022120-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Brf-Leenane-SDN-022120-1.jpg 494w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Brf-Leenane-SDN-022120-1-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\"><figcaption><strong>Irish playwright Martin McDonagh\u2019s \u201cThe Beauty Queen of Leenane\u201d tells the story of a 40-year-old spinster living with her 70-year-old mother. The play runs from Feb. 27 through March 29 at the Breckenridge Theater, 121 S. Ridge St., in Breckenridge.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Breckenridge Backstage Theatre<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 On Thursday, Feb. 27, the dramatic and darkly comedic \u201cThe Beauty Queen of Leenane\u201d opens at the Breckenridge Backstage Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway,&nbsp;\u201cThe Beauty Queen of Leenane\u201d&nbsp;tells the tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early 40s, and Mag, her manipulative, aging mother. Mag interferes in Maureen\u2019s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship, setting in motion a chain of events that leads toward the play\u2019s terrifying resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Martin McDonagh, who also has written movies such as \u201cIn Bruges\u201d and \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,\u201d the Tony Award-winning play first premiered in 1996 in Galway, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets range from $25-$43, and the show runs from Feb. 27 through March 29 at the Breckenridge Theater, 121 S. Ridge St., in Breckenridge. It is two hours long with an intermission and rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<p>Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.backstagetheatre.org\/201920-beauty-queen-of-leenane\">BackstageTheatre.org<\/a>&nbsp;or call the BreckCreate box office at 970-547-3100 to purchase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/visit-the-mountains-of-connemara-in-the-beauty-queen-of-leenane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish playwright Martin McDonagh\u2019s \u201cThe Beauty Queen of Leenane\u201d tells the story of a 40-year-old spinster living with her 70-year-old mother. The play runs from Feb. 27 through March 29 at the Breckenridge Theater, 121 S. Ridge St., in Breckenridge.Courtesy Breckenridge Backstage Theatre BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 On Thursday, Feb. 27, the dramatic and darkly comedic \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 03:44:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}